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.

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, ...