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Database Procedures

Special-Purpose Subroutines

Database procedures are special-purpose subroutines designed to perform functions such as data compression and decompression. You write and compile these procedures as subroutines that are executed by the database management system whenever an access is made to an area or a record. User-written database procedures can be specified for non-SQL defined databases only.