AW: Why did Stored Procedure execute?

["Birgitta Hauser" <Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jack 
... the (SQL) Source code in a SQL Routine (Stored Procedure, Trigger and
User defined function) is always embedded in a compound statement (i.e.
between Begin and End) You may can refrain from the compound statement if
there is only a single statement to be executed in the routine.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

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Gesendet: Tuesday, 07.2 2023 17:30
An: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Cc: Jack Woehr
Betreff: Re: Why did Stored Procedure execute?

Because you ended the CREATE PROCEDURE statement with a semicolon, and then
inline in your SQL session you opened a clause with BEGIN.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 9:27 AM <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
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> I may be about to expose my ignorance here but my skin is getting 
> thicker in my old age.
>
> I wrote what I thought was a stored procedure that I could execute 
> later when I needed it. I ran the RUNSQLSTM command interactively to
compile it.
> At first there were a few syntax errors that needed correction. Fixed 
> them but, when there were no errors, the procedure actually began
executing.
> There is no Stored Procedure as an object in the library.
>
>
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> Here's the first few lines of that procedure.
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> DROP   PROCEDURE UPILIB/COMPCONS;
>
> CREATE PROCEDURE UPILIB/COMPCONS;
>
> BEGIN
>
> update Library/FileName set BICMPY = 72 where BICMPY in(20,71,90,95);
>
>
>
> several hundred more lines.
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> END;
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> It's been a few months since I wrote a Stored procedure, but I don't 
> know how this thing could have executed with me actually calling it
separately.
> What am I overlooking?
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>
>
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> Kind Regards,
>
>
>
> Thomas Garvey
>
>
>
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