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title: "What is a stored procedure?"  
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# What is a stored procedure?

A stored procedure sometimes is also called as SP or sproc. This feature is available to those applications accessing relational database. Features and commands of stored procedure are actually stored in database dictionary.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

A stored procedure sometimes is also called as SP or sproc. This feature is available to those applications accessing relational database. Features and commands of stored procedure are actually stored in database dictionary.


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