Begin Statement - Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere Reference

BEGIN statement

BEGIN statement
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Use this statement to group SQL statements together.
[ statement-label : ]
... BEGIN [ [ NOT ] ATOMIC ]
... [ local-declaration ; ... ]
... statement-list
... [ EXCEPTION [ exception-case ... ] ]
... END [ statement-label ]
local-declaration :
variable-declaration
| cursor-declaration
| exception-declaration
| temporary-table-declaration
variable-declaration :
DECLARE variable-name data-type
exception-declaration :
DECLARE exception-name EXCEPTION
FOR SQLSTATE [ VALUE ] string
exception-case :
WHEN exception-name [, ... ] THEN statement-list
| WHEN OTHERS THEN statement-list
None.
None.
"DECLARE CURSOR statement" on page 488
"DECLARE LOCAL TEMPORARY TABLE statement" on page 495
"LEAVE statement" on page 558
"SIGNAL statement" on page 619
"RESIGNAL statement" on page 590
"Using Procedures, Triggers, and Batches" on page 435 of the book ASA
User's Guide
The body of a procedure or trigger is a compound statement. Compound
statements can also be used in control statements within a procedure or
trigger.
A compound statement allows one or more SQL statements to be grouped
together and treated as a unit. A compound statement starts with the keyword
BEGIN and ends with the keyword END.