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Re: SQL: VALUES ... INTO vs. SET

On 7/28/2017 11:50 AM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Are you saying you can use SET to get a value from a table column? If
so, I didn't know you could do that. And, if so, then I would say
that SET would be fine for a single value/column where VALUES...INTO
would be used for multiple columns.

No, I'm asking if one method is better than the other.

VALUES(somesqlfunction(parm)) INTO :someVariable

vs.

SET :someVariable = somesqlfunction(parm);

david



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