Calling a user defined stored procedure from select statement mysql

Question

I am trying to call a user defined stored procedure from a select statement and its giving me an error. However when I call a system procedure it works just fine. Is there a

Answer 1

You can call stored procedure from select statement,To call a procedure you must use following syntax:

CALL stored_procedure_name (param1, param2, ....)  

Such as, you can CALL following procedure:

DELIMITER //

CREATE PROCEDURE `procedure1`(IN var1 INT)
BEGIN
    SELECT var1 + 2 AS result;
END//

as

CALL procedure1(10);

Check this site for reference: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/an-introduction-to-stored-procedures/