All differences between a function and a procedure.

What are All differences between a function and a procedure.

What are All differences between a function and a procedure.This is basic procedural programming fundamentals that you should learn at school.
A function is a procedure that returns a value (of the type defined in the function declaration) using the RETURN statement at the terminal point of the processing code.
That's the only difference.
In terms of SQL, procedures cannot be used within SQL and functions can, but only if the function does not contain any OUT or IN OUT parameters and the return type is of a supported SQL type.

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Hi,
can anybody explain the exact differnce between dunning area and dunning procedure
why we define both n how we use them
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i would be very much thankful if can get the exact differnetation

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Hi,
Here's an example of a user-defined function:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION     factorial
(      in_num       IN     PLS_INTEGER
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using function *********
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