Re: Stored procedures and out parameters

On 16/08/2018 19:54, Shay Rojansky wrote:
> I don't think there's anything really Microsoft-specific about any of
> this (except maybe in the history) - just like JDBC and psycopg, there's
> simply a single standard way in the database API for invoking
> server-side things, and not two ways.

Have you looked what those standard interfaces do in other SQL
implementations (e.g., Oracle, DB2, Derby, MySQL)?  AFAICT in no case
does it involve allowing functions to be called as procedures or vice versa.

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