<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c419dc03-102a-437a-9aee-a7e3fa673fd8/5000F5DF-9F6E-4FE4-B7B5-7881450DC9DB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/learn-plsql-procedures-and-functions-13030" href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/learn-plsql-procedures-and-functions-13030" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.ittoolbox.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/learn-plsql-procedures-and-functions-13030"><DIV>This is part of an ongoing series on learning PL/SQL. If you are new to PL/SQL, you should <A href="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/learn-oracle-the-index-10395">check out the article Index</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/learn-plsql-procedures-and-functions-13030"><B>Procedures VS Functions</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/learn-plsql-procedures-and-functions-13030"><DIV>Procedures are traditionally the workhorse of the coding world and functions are traditionally the smaller, more specific pieces of code. In general, if you need to update the chart of accounts, you would write a procedure. If you need to retrieve the organization code for a particular GL account, you would write a function.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5000F5DF-9F6E-4FE4-B7B5-7881450DC9DB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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