MySQL syntax error in WHILE statement

Question

I\'m working through learning MySQL (v 5.6) and trying to get a simple WHILE loop to go through. I even just straight copy & paste from the manual (with add

Answer 1

The procedure looks ok I guess you are missing the delimiter

delimiter //
CREATE PROCEDURE dowhile()
  BEGIN
   DECLARE v1 INT DEFAULT 5;
    WHILE v1 > 0 DO
     SET v1 = v1 - 1;
   END WHILE;
 END; //
delimiter ;