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Subject: Re: DB API question - where is a stored procedure's return value?
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On Mar 13, 2014, at 12:00 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:

> As a general solution, one might wrap a stored procedure that returns
> a value into a stored procedure that has an output parameter and call
> it with callproc.  Some implementations might include a return value
> in the parameter list anyway.

Alternatively=85 if it=92s really a function=85 wrap it in a select =
statement=85 such as:

select foo() as value from dual