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From Asko Oja
Subject Out parameters handling
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Msg-id ecd779860903061329h1931433fl743e60f6092404e@mail.gmail.com
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Hi<br /><br />It was one of my worst Friday's finding out that this brain dead implementation of out parameters had
beenpart of fuck up again.<br />This time we did notice it two days too late. <br />I wish for a way to use out
parametersin functions only through some predefined prefix like in triggers new and old. Means i  would like to limit
referencingto out parameters to one prefix only defined in the beginning of declare section of stored procedure.<br />
Itreally sucks what kind of mistakes you can pass to production unknowingly. I would much prefer a way to prevent such
nonsense.<br/>Here was the case where out parameters were with same names with select into field names resulting in
nulloutcome. Just yesterday we had similar case with update statement.<br /><br />regards <br />Asko<br /> 

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