Creating stored procedures : Procedure « Function Procedure Packages « Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial

1. Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial
2. Function Procedure Packages
3. Procedure

You can store PL/SQL code inside the database.

You could store the following PL/SQL code as a standalone procedure.

SQL> set SERVEROUTPUT ON
SQL> create or replace procedure p_hello
  2  is
  3     v_string varchar2(256):='Hello, World!';
  4  begin
  5     dbms_output.put_line(v_string);
  6  end;
  7  /

Procedure created.


SQL>

When the procedure exists in the database, you can easily call the routine and get the same result as before, as shown here:

SQL> begin
  2       p_hello;
  3  end;
  4  /
Hello, World!

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.