> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karel Zak - Zakkr [mailto:zakkr@zf.jcu.cz]
>
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Karel Zak - Zakkr [mailto:zakkr@zf.jcu.cz]
> > >
> > > > > EXECUTE name [ INTO x, y, ... ] [ USING a, b, ... ]
> > > >
> > > > This command "Associate input parametrs and output targets
> > > with a prepared
> > > > statement and execute the statement" (SQL92).
> > > >
> >
> > I don't know well about PREPARE statement.
> > But is above syntax for interative SQL command ?
> > Isn't it for embedded SQL or SQL module ?
>
> - PREPARE save to cache any standard sql command (OptimizableStmt).
> - EXECUTE run this cached plan (query) and send data to frontend or
> INTO any relation.
>
> Or what you mean?
>
In old Oracle(I don't know recent Oracle,sorry),PREPARE couldn't be called
as an interactive SQL command. It was used only in embedded SQL.
Seems x, y after INTO are output variables. In embedded SQL they are
host variables. But I don't know what they are in interactive SQL.
Regards.
Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp
