Stored procedures allow Actuate reports to execute database tasks like modifying, inserting, or deleting records. Actuate supports stored procedures for various databases like Oracle, Sybase, and Progress. Developers can work with stored procedures using Actuate's automated design facilities, override Basic methods, or directly access stored procedures by preparing statements, defining parameters, executing procedures, and retrieving output or returned rows.

1. Actuate
Using Stored Procedure

2. About Stored Procedures
 Is a block of SQL statements that perform a specific
task.
 Stored in the database and, like standard procedures,
can be called by name from an application.
 Actuate reports can call stored procedures in databases.
 can use stored procedures to execute any database
task, for example, modifying, inserting, or deleting
records, exchanging data between the database and
Actuate reports.

3. About Stored Procedures
 Actuate supports the automated stored procedure
features for the following databases:-
 ODBC databases, including PeopleSoft.
 Sybase databases connected by Sybase ctlib drivers.
 Oracle8 databases used with Oracle8 client.
 Progress9 databases.
 The components and tools provided by Actuate for
stored procedure:-
 Stored Procedure Component.
 Stored Procedure Browser.
 Stored Procedure Name Editor.
 Sample Parameter Value Dialog.

4. Working with Stored Procedures
 can work with stored procedures in these ways:
 Using the automated design facilities.
 Overriding Actuate Basic methods.
 The automated design facilities handle only the first set
of returned results.
 override Actuate Basic methods to customize stored
procedure.

5. Accessing stored procedures
 The following are general steps for calling a stored
procedure from an Actuate application:-
 Connect to the database.
 Create and prepare the statement to execute the
stored procedure using the connection's Prepare( )
method.
 define the procedure input parameters using the
statement's DefineProcedureInputParameter( )
method.
 Do not embed the input parameter definitions in the
statement itself.

6. Accessing stored procedures
 Define output parameters using the statement's
DefineProcedureOutputParameter( ) method.
 Call the StartNextSet( ) method.
 Execute the stored procedure using Execute( ).
 Get the output parameter value or values using
GetOutputParameter( ).

7. Accessing stored procedures
 If the stored procedure returns rows:-
 Create a cursor using the statement's
AllocateCursor( ) method.
 Bind the columns to data-row variables using the
cursor's BindColumn( ) method.
 Create the data-row object using New( ).
 Retrieve the rows using the cursor's Fetch( )
method.
 If the stored procedure returns a status, get the return
status value using GetProcedureStatus( ).