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EXEC SQL - Quick reference

Reference

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Syntax

EXEC SQL [PERFORMING subr]. 
  ... 
ENDEXEC. 

Effect

Defines an area in which Native SQL statements can be specified for database accesses.

Addition

• PERFORMING subr
  Obsolete: Implicit cursor processing if a SELECT statement is specified. Here, the subroutine subr is called for each row read.