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what is the difference between a Stored Procedure and a Function?

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what is the difference between a Stored Procedure and a Function?

What's the difference between procedures and functions in Pascal?

Have a look at the BOL: functions return a single parameter or a table
while procedures can have multiple output parametes.
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