Showing posts with label Difference between Stored Procedure and Function in Sql Server. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Difference between Stored Procedure and Function in Sql Server. Show all posts

March 01, 2016

Difference between Stored Procedure and Function?

Stored Procedure
  • It is a precompiled set of one or more SQL statements that is stored on Sql Server.
  • As Stored Procedures are executed on the server side and perform a set of actions, before returning the results to the client side, which allows a set of actions to be executed with minimum time and also reduce the network traffic. Hence stored procedure improve performance to execute sql statements.
  • Stored procedure can accepts input and output parameters.
  • Stored procedure can returns multiple values using output parameters.
  • Using stored procedure, we can Select, Insert, Update or Delete data in database.