Looking to bolster the enterprise-readiness of its open source database, MySQL on Monday will preview an update to its platform that adds stored procedures and server side cursor capabilities ...

Stored Procedures Vs. Prepared Statements in PHP and MySQL. The PHP development language provides you with a "prepare" function to send a prepared statement to a SQL database.

Right-click the PHP page you want to use to call the stored procedure and select "Open With." Click the PHP editor to open the code. Add the PHP connection to the MySQL database.

Stored procedures have been features in closed-source relational databases, such as Oracle, since the early 1990s. However, MySQL added stored procedure support only in the recent 5.0 release and, ...

Not sure about rational support, but SmallTalk and ABC (predecessor to Python) have 'exact' or something, at least for integers, so you can do silly things like 1000!, if you have enough memory ...