Home/ Questions/Q 60345
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-10T18:08:51+00:00

I see Oracle procedures sometimes written with AS, and sometimes with IS keyword. CREATE

  • 0

I see Oracle procedures sometimes written with ‘AS’, and sometimes with ‘IS’ keyword. 

CREATE OR REPLACE Procedure TESTUSER.KILLINSTANCE (INSTANCEID integer) **AS** ...

vs.

CREATE OR REPLACE Procedure TESTUSER.KILLINSTANCE (INSTANCEID integer) **IS** ...

Is there any difference between the two?

Edit: Apparently, there is no functional difference between the two, but some people follow a convention to use ‘AS’ when the SP is part of a package and ‘IS’ when it is not. Or the other way ’round. Meh.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. None whatsover. They are synonyms supplied to make your code more readable:

    FUNCTION f IS …

    CREATE VIEW v AS SELECT …

    • 0