MySQL – How to Create Stored Procedure in MySQL_MySQL

MySQL supports Stored Procedures which can execute set of codes by applying relevant business logics. In this post we will see how to create a stored procedure and execute it.

Let us create the following tables

CREATE TABLE items(item_id INT, item_description VARCHAR(100));
CREATE TABLE sales(sales_id INT auto_increment KEY,item_id INT, sales_date DATETIME, sales_amount DECIMAL(12,2));
INSERT INTO items VALUES (1,'Television');
INSERT INTO items VALUES (2,'Mobile');
INSERT INTO items VALUES (3,'laptop');
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (1,'2014-01-01',1200);
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (2,'2014-01-02',200);
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (3,'2014-01-09',1700);
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (3,'2014-01-29',1700);
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (3,'2014-02-11',1700);
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (1,'2014-02-16',1200);
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (2,'2014-02-16',200);
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (2,'2014-02-20',200);
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (2,'2014-02-20',200);
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (2,'2014-02-22',200);
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (3,'2014-02-24',1700);
INSERT INTO sales(item_id,sales_date,sales_amount) VALUES (1,'2014-02-24',1200);

Suppose you want to create a stored procedure which will accept item_description and returns the total sales_amount for theenireperiod, you can do it as shown below

DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE Test.usp_get_sales
(
param_item_description VARCHAR(100)
)
BEGIN
SELECT item_description,SUM(sales_amount) AS sales_amount FROM items NATURAL
JOIN sales
WHERE item_description=param_item_description
GROUP BY item_description;
END;
$$
DELIMITER;


Note that the creation of the stored procedure starts with setting the Delimiter $$. The default delimiter for MySQL statements are semicolon so in order to instruct the MySQL engine about the start and end of the stored procedure block, you need to use a different delimiter (which in this case $$ is used).

Now you can execute a stored procedure usingCALL keywordas shown below.

Execution 1

CALL usp_get_sales('Television');

When you execute the above code, the result is

Item_description sales_amountTelevision 3600.00

Execution 2

CALL usp_get_sales('laptop');

When you execute the above code, the result is

Item_description sales_amountlaptop 6800.00

Note:The parameters do not start with @ like we use in SQL Server. So in order todifferentiatebetween the actual column name and parameter name, the name param_item_description is used. You may need to use different naming conventions as you like.

I have previously written a similar article here: MySQL – How to Create Stored Procedure.

Reference:Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)