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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook

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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook

Overview of this book

With lots of new features, DB2 9.7 delivers one the best relational database systems in the market. DB2 pureXML optimizes Web 2.0 and SOA applications. DB2 LUW database software offers industry leading performance, scale, and reliability on your choice of platform on various Linux distributions, leading Unix Systems like AIX, HP-UX and Solaris and MS Windows platforms. This DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook will provide an in-depth quick reference during any application's design and development. This practical cookbook focuses on advanced application development areas that include performance tips and the most useful DB2 features that help in designing high quality applications. This book dives deep into tips and tricks for optimized application performance. With this book you will learn how to use various DB2 features in database applications in an interactive way.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Working with result sets in stored procedures


We can get the results from a stored procedure either in the form of the OUT or INOUT parameters or as result sets. In this recipe, we will discuss returning result sets in stored procedures. A stored procedure can be invoked either from a client application or from another stored procedure. If we return a result set from a procedure, we need to decide where to return it. We can return the result set to its caller or to the client. If it's returned to CALLER, then the result sets are not available at the end client. In this recipe, we will discuss how we can return result sets from a stored procedure.

How to do it...

Returning a result set: To return a result set from a procedure, we need to declare a cursor with the required definition and leave the cursor OPEN. The cursor should be defined as WITH RETURN; otherwise, the result set will not be returned.

For example, if we want to return all the employees with a salary greater than 10,000, then...