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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook

You're reading from  IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683968
Pages 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters close

IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Application Development Enhancements in DB2 9.7 2. DB2 Application Techniques 3. General Application Design 4. Procedures, Functions, Triggers, and Modules 5. Designing Java Applications 6. DB2 9.7 Application Enablement 7. Advanced DB2 Application Features and Practices 8. Preparing and Monitoring Database Applications 9. Advanced Performance Tuning Tips

Using dynamic SQL in stored procedures


Dynamic SQL is used when the SQL statement is not known at compile time. In such cases, we use PREPARE and EXECUTE statements to execute a dynamic SQL, where we get the complete SQL statement at runtime. The prepared statement is based on either a host variable or a string expression. At runtime, we make this value available for DB2 to process it. We can implement dynamic SQL in stored procedures in the same manner as in other applications. In this recipe, we will focus on using dynamic SQL in stored procedures.

How to do it...

Executing an SQL statement dynamically: To execute an SQL statement dynamically, we need to first prepare it and then execute it. The statement can be prepared from a declared variable or directly from an SQL statement.

The following example prepares and executes an UPDATE statement on the EMPLOYEE table, based on input parameter value:

  1. 1. Define the input and output parameters of the procedure along with any optional clauses...

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