Oracle Procedure

by Online Tutorials Library July 14, 2022

Oracle Procedures

A procedure is a group of PL/SQL statements that can be called by name. The call specification (sometimes called call spec) specifies a java method or a third-generation language routine so that it can be called from SQL and PL/SQL.

Create Procedure

Syntax

 CREATE [OR REPLACE] PROCEDURE procedure_name     [ (parameter [,parameter]) ] IS     [declaration_section] BEGIN     executable_section [EXCEPTION     exception_section] END [procedure_name]; 

Following are the three types of procedures that must be defined to create a procedure.

IN: It is a default parameter. It passes the value to the subprogram.
OUT: It must be specified. It returns a value to the caller.
IN OUT: It must be specified. It passes an initial value to the subprogram and returns an updated value to the caller.

Oracle Create procedure example

In this example, we are going to insert record in the “user” table. So you need to create user table first.

Table creation:

Now write the procedure code to insert record in user table.

Procedure Code:

 create or replace procedure “INSERTUSER”   (id IN NUMBER,   name IN VARCHAR2)   is   begin   insert into user values(id,name);   end;   /      

Output:

Procedure created.

Oracle program to call procedure

Let’s see the code to call above created procedure.

  BEGIN      insertuser(101,’Rahul’);    dbms_output.put_line(‘record inserted successfully’);   END;   /   

Now, see the “USER” table, you will see one record is inserted.

ID	Name
101	Rahul

Oracle Drop Procedure

Syntax

Example to drop procedure

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