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- From: davek@informix.com (David Kosenko)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Stored queries under INFORMIX 4.00 or INFORMIX 4.10
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.171124.7567@informix.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 17:11:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.162232.28445@walter.cray.com>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- In article <1992Nov4.162232.28445@walter.cray.com> n2976@cray.com writes:
- >Does anybody know if INFORMIX 4.00 or INFORMIX 4.10 supports stored queries?
- >
- >If not what about 5.00? What about any INFORMIX product?
- >
-
- We do not support stored queries (I think what you really want here are
- stored query plans, no?)
-
- What 5.0 brings, though, is stored procedures. This allows you to put
- your sql into a stored procedure. That query is optimized at procedure
- create time, and the query plan stored with the procedure. That query
- plan will be used whenever that procedure is called (it would only be
- reoptimized if the underlying table's structure should change). This
- gives you the same basic effect as a stored query plan. It does require
- that you call the procedure rather than issue the sql statement directly,
- but procedures can be used just like a statement (e.g. you can declare
- cursors against them, they can return sets of rows, etc.).
-
- Dave
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