I need to create two temporary tables inside a stored procedure, and wherever I put the CREATE statements MySQL gives me that nonsense syntax error missing 'end'.
This useful page says nothing about where to put the CREATE statements, though I have everything else is in the desired order.
I also would like to note that only the semicolon after second CREATE statement is recognized as a syntax error, if I swap them, the error is still in the latter statement.
Here's my code, but I guess only first 20 lines matter.
The statements I was (unsuccessfully) trying to add:
-- temporary tables
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE filtered
LIKE seances;
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE probs (
solution_id INT,
priori DOUBLE);
I need to use table output of stored procedure outside of it.
Stored procedure produces pivot table which means:
I don't know exact structure of output table - cannot use INSERT INTO for permanent / temporary table (they expect exact table structure).
Complex SQL statements inside (not only SELECT statements) - cannot export SQL code outside of stored procedure in some SELECT.
How to use SP table output meaning these conditions?
The problem was in non-fixed structure of SP output.
So, CREATE TABLE flds / INSERT INTO not working when table structure not exactly defined before.
But exists very flexible syntax for CREATE [TEMPORARY] TABLE AS which is not require exactly defined table structure. It helped me.
Hope this will help to MYSQL beginners.
i'm new to MySQL.
I need to call stored procedure from a stored procedure and use the first stored procedure as a table.
How to do this without use temporary table?
How to do this without use temporary table?
create a fact table then
Not sure why there is a requirement saying: can't use temporary table as you are using store procedure. but that must be unreasonable.
if the RDBS takes care of that for you , the underlying mechanism is still store the 1st result set somewhere in the memory as middle step result. temporary table for you.
so just: create a temporary table, call the store procedure, insert data into that . why not
I have MySQL procedure where I want to get a result of query:
SELECT id FROM mbus_clients WHERE second_name like surnamePart AS
So it should be an array. The decision I've found in the internet is to use temporary table.
But how can I return a table and read with PHP? Is it ok?
Simply call the procedure:
CALL procedurename();
If the procedure performs a SELECT, the result set of the procedure call will be the same as if you'd performed the query itself. You can then fetch the rows using PHP the same way as if you'd performed a SELECT.
I have execute only access to a stored procedure.
This SP seems to select some data from multiple tables, and returns one row. I need to store two columns of the output of this SP into a table.
Is there any way to do this within MySQL?
If it returns a row, this is a stored function and not a stored procedure. You can use something like the following to insert into your table:
INSERT INTO tablename SELECT (SELECT col1, col2 FROM (SELECT somefunction()))
Otherwise, it will be a stored procedure and you should do something like this, assuming that #var1 and #var2 are output parameters:
CALL someprocedure(#var1, #var2, #var3)
INSERT INTO tablename SELECT(#var1, #var2)
See the documentation about Create Procedure and Create Function for more information about functions versus procedures.
MySQL has an extension to stored procedures that allows the procedure to return one or more result sets to the client, as if the client had issued a SELECT query... but those results are ephemeral. They don't persist and they can't be stored in variables or otherwise accessed after the procedure finishes -- they can only be "fetched" the one time.
There is a way to make them accessible without breaking the way the procedure already works, as I discussed here, but you can't do it without a change to the procedure:
How to use Table output from stored MYSQL Procedure
The idea is for the procedure to write its output in a temporary table, and then return it to the caller by calling SELECT against the temporary table -- but to leave the temporary table behind so that the caller can access it directly if desired.
That's not exactly the same as what you're asking though, which is why I didn't mark this question as a duplicate, since you, unlike the other poster, do not appear to have administrative control of the procedure... but unless you can make the case for a change like this, there's not another way within MySQL to access those returned values, since they only exist in the result-set that's returned.
Of course, procedures do have optional OUT parameters, where you can hand variables to the procedure as part of arguments you use to call it, and it can set those variables, so that they'll have the values you need when the procedure is done, but that only works when the return values are scalars and would require a change to the procedure's interface, since procs in MySQL do not have "optional" arguments... if the procedure were changed to permit this, it would require an increased number of arguments to be provided every time it was called, and if other components are calling it, that could easily break other things.