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SearchOpenSource: Staying Smart with Sybase

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 29, 2006

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What’s the difference between a stored procedure and a
view, if both are pre-compiled objects? Which of the two is faster?
Doesn’t compiling make things quicker?

Mich Talebzadeh: On the face of it, one might
think that a view and a stored procedure were equivalent to one
another. After all, a view returns a result set, and a stored
procedure can also return one. But that’s where the similarity
ends…”


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