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Re: Adding IN parameter

Robert Vollman — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:38:19 -0000

Great Feuerstein link, thanks!

Re: Adding IN parameter

Eddie Awad — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:22:54 -0000

Rob, the link should be fixed now.

Re: Adding IN parameter

Rob Baillie — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:53:28 -0000

Sorry Eddie,

The permalink address for that entry has changed (so much for the perma part of that name!).

It's now: http://robertbaillie.blogsp...

Re: Adding IN parameter

Eddie Awad — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:16:30 -0000

_Donâ€™t need to move it to the end. You can specify your arguments in your procedure calls_

What if you cannot or do not want to change how you call the procedure. At work, I have one procedure that is called by 20 others. I do not have access to the other 20 calling procedures and they do not use named notation in their calls. Now I want to add a new IN parameter to the called procedure. What shall I do? That's what I'm trying to solve here.

_What do you mean by that?_

Sorry, I was not clear. I meant I always avoid standalone procedures and functions. I always create my procedures and functions inside packages. [Here](http://www.oracle.com/techn... is a good article by Steven Feuerstein about this subject.

Re: Adding IN parameter

Robert Vollman — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:52:08 -0000

Don't need to move it to the end. You can specify your arguments in your procedure calls. That is a good habit to get into anyway.

scott@Robert> create or replace procedure test_proc
2 (param1\_in in number, param2\_in in number := 1, param2\_out out varchar2)
3 as
4 begin
5 param2\_out := 'done';
6 end;
7 /

scott@Robert> declare
2 value\_out varchar2(20);
3 begin
4 test\_proc (param1\_in => 1, param2\_out => value\_out);
5 dbms\_output.put_line(value\_out);
6 end;
7 /
done

"Normally, I do not create procedures. I always use packages."

What do you mean by that? You create packages with stored procedures inside them?