Subject Calling Stored Procedure in From section of Select Statement
Author horstphil <phorst@tabornet.org>
Hello all,

Using FB
I just discovered that one could call a stored procedure in the From
section. I want to pass into the procedure the values
person.firstname, person.middlename and person.lastname.

Below is how I would imagine how this would look, but it is not the
correct syntax. Can anyone tell me what is the correct syntax?
(I did look in the manuals, but am not finding any reference to this
particular situation).


SELECT ADDRESS.STREET1,
ADDRESS.STREET2,
ADDRESS.CITY,
ADDRESS.STATECD,
ADDRESS.ZIPCODE,
ADDRESS.OWNERID,
PERSON.FIRSTNAME,
PERSON.MIDDLENAME,
PERSON.LASTNAME,
FORMATNAME.FULLNAME
FROM FORMATNAME(PERSON.FIRSTNAME, PERSON.MIDDLENAME,
PERSON.LASTNAME, 'LNF'),
PERSON INNER JOIN ADDRESS ON (PERSON.PERSONID = ADDRESS.OWNERID)
WHERE ADDRESS.OWNERID IS NOT NULL

FORMATNAME is a stored procedure that returns a properly formatted
name based on the input parameters.

TIA,
Phil Horst