Hi Ethan,

What specific procedure are you referring to?

 The SEI online help  (https://onlinehelp.sageenterpriseintelligence.com/Latest/en/Home.htm) contains some step-by-step procedures with print screens.

By the way, Sage University is offering SEI classes in May.

Regards,

Pam

Hi Pam,

The procedure I mean is the procedure in 'stored procedure'. 

I also checked the weblink. It mainly illustrates the steps of precedure repated operations, but not clarifies the definition of procedure. 

Hi Ethan,

Is this example enough https://onlinehelp.sageenterpriseintelligence.com/Latest/en/Web-Interface/ProcessDesign/contextual-stored-procedure-script.htm?Highlight=create%20stored%20procedure ?

Thanks Pam. It helps resolve my problem. 

I'm still confused on what is the purpose or why I would want to use a stored procedure... What problem does it help solve ? 

Hi Allison,

There are a number of reasons that you may use a stored procedure. It is another of way of gathering data . You might have calculations on the data that you want to present. It may improve performance. 

Regards,

Pam

so it is something similar to a view in SQL ? 

so it is something similar to a view in SQL ? 

I took this explanation from https://365datascience.com/

"A view represents a virtual table. You can join multiple tables in a view and use the view to present the data as if the data were coming from a single table.

"A stored procedure uses parameters to do a function. It can be updating and inserting data, or returning single values or data sets."