Routines

Video: External Language Stored Procedures

At the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo, Eric Herman and Antony Curtis spoke about "External Language Stored Procedures". Download the slides, see people's notes, and more on the MySQL Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008ThursdayNotes#External_Language_Stored_Procedures

Log Buffer #72 — a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Welcome to the 72nd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs.
Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) is over, and Lucas Jellema of the AMIS Technology blog notes the OOW Content Catalog has been updated with most of the presentations available for download.
On his way home from OOW, Chris Muir of the appropriately titled One Size Doesn’t Fit All blog notes how OOW and the Australian Oracle User Group Conference and OOW compare with regards to 99% fewer attendees in AUSOUG Perth conference - from 45k down to 350.

Creating an API for My Stored Procedures

Does anyone have any ways they create an API for their stored routines (functions and procedures)? Currently it seems as though I have to parse the CREATE statement to get the input variables….Has anyone else done this? Is it in any third party tools?