Sybase 12.4.2 - Manual (Page 252)

Introduction to procedures
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The body of a procedure is a compound statement. The compound statement
starts with a
BEGIN statement and concludes with an END statement. In the case
of new_dept , the compound statement is a single INSERT bracketed by BEGIN
and END statements.
For more information, see “Using compound statements” on page 240
Parameters to procedures are marked as one of IN, OUT, or INOUT. All
parameters to the
new_dept procedure are IN parameters, as they are not
changed by the procedure.
Calling procedures
A procedure is invoked with a CALL statement. Procedures can be called by
an application program, or they can be called by other procedures.
For more information, see Adaptive Server IQ Reference Manual.
The following statement calls the new_dept procedure to insert an Eastern
Sales department:
CALL new_dept( 210, ’Eastern Sales’, 902 );
After this call, you may wish to check the department table to see that the new
department has been added.
The new_dept procedure can be called by all users who have been granted
EXECUTE permission for the procedure, even if they have no permissions on
the
department table.
Dropping procedures
Once a procedure is created, it remains in the database until it is explicitly
removed. Only the owner of the procedure or a user with DBA authority can
drop the procedure from the database.
The following statement removes the procedure new_dept from the database:
DROP PROCEDURE new_dept