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Synopsis

Description

Use the SET statement in SQL routines to assign a value to a variable, referenced by comma-separated identifiers. The value is determined by evaluating the expression after the = sign. Before the assignment the variable must be defined with a DECLARE statement. The data type of the variable must be identical to the data type of evaluating the expression.

Examples

The following functions returns the value 1 after setting the counter variable multiple times to different values:
Further examples of varying complexity that cover usage of the SET statement in combination with other statements are available in the SQL routines examples documentation.

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