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<refentry id="SQL-EXECUTE">
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<refentrytitle id="sql-execute-title">EXECUTE</refentrytitle>
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<refmiscinfo>SQL - Language Statements</refmiscinfo>
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<refname>EXECUTE</refname>
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<refpurpose>execute a prepared statement</refpurpose>
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<indexterm zone="sql-execute">
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<primary>EXECUTE</primary>
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<indexterm zone="sql-execute">
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<primary>prepared statements</primary>
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<secondary>executing</secondary>
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EXECUTE <replaceable class="PARAMETER">plan_name</replaceable> [ (<replaceable class="PARAMETER">parameter</replaceable> [, ...] ) ]
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<title>Description</title>
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<command>EXECUTE</command> is used to execute a previously prepared
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statement. Since prepared statements only exist for the duration of a
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session, the prepared statement must have been created by a
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<command>PREPARE</command> statement executed earlier in the
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If the <command>PREPARE</command> statement that created the statement
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specified some parameters, a compatible set of parameters must be
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passed to the <command>EXECUTE</command> statement, or else an
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error is raised. Note that (unlike functions) prepared statements are
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not overloaded based on the type or number of their parameters; the
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name of a prepared statement must be unique within a database session.
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For more information on the creation and usage of prepared statements,
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see <xref linkend="sql-prepare" endterm="sql-prepare-title">.
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<title>Parameters</title>
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<term><replaceable class="PARAMETER">plan_name</replaceable></term>
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The name of the prepared statement to execute.
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<term><replaceable class="PARAMETER">parameter</replaceable></term>
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The actual value of a parameter to the prepared statement. This
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must be an expression yielding a value of a type compatible with
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the data type specified for this parameter position in the
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<command>PREPARE</command> command that created the prepared
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<title>Outputs</title>
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The command tag returned by <command>EXECUTE</command>
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is that of the prepared statement, and not <literal>EXECUTE</>.
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Examples are given in the <xref linkend="sql-prepare-examples"
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endterm="sql-prepare-examples-title"> section of the <xref
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linkend="sql-prepare" endterm="sql-prepare-title"> documentation.
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<title>Compatibility</title>
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The SQL standard includes an <command>EXECUTE</command> statement,
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but it is only for use in embedded SQL. This version of the
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<command>EXECUTE</command> statement also uses a somewhat different
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<title>See Also</title>
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<simplelist type="inline">
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<member><xref linkend="sql-deallocate" endterm="sql-deallocate-title"></member>
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<member><xref linkend="sql-prepare" endterm="sql-prepare-title"></member>
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