想想这样的情况，

You have a database with data. There are a number of different applications needed to access that central database, and in the future some new applications too. If you are going to insert the inline database queries to access the central database, inside each application's code individually, then probably you have to duplicate the same query again and again inside different applications' code. In that kind of a situation, you can use stored procedures (SPs). With stored procedures, you are writing number of common queries (procedures) and store them with the central database. Now the duplication of work will never happen as before and the data access and the maintenance will be done centrally.

注意:

In the above situation, you may wonder "Why cannot we introduce a central data access server to interact with all the applications? Yes. That will be a possible alternative. But, The main advantage with SPs over that approach is, unlike your data-access-code with inline queries, SPs are pre-compiled statements, so they will execute faster. And communication costs (over networks) will be at a minimum. Opposite to that, SPs will add some more load to the database server. If that would be a concern according to the situation, a centralized data access server with inline queries will be a better choice.

对于简单的,

存储过程是存储程序，存储在数据库中的程序或函数。

每个存储的程序都包含一个由SQL语句组成的主体。该语句可以是由几个用分号(;)分隔的语句组成的复合语句。

CREATE PROCEDURE dorepeat(p1 INT)
BEGIN
  SET @x = 0;
  REPEAT SET @x = @x + 1; UNTIL @x > p1 END REPEAT;
END;

存储过程是一个预编译的SQL语句集，它执行一些特定的任务。 存储过程应该使用EXEC单独执行 存储过程可以返回多个参数 存储过程可用于实现事务

存储过程主要用于在数据库上执行某些任务。例如

从数据上的一些业务逻辑获取数据库结果集。 在一次调用中执行多个数据库操作。 用于将数据从一个表迁移到另一个表。 可用于其他编程语言，如Java。

存储过程将帮助您在服务器中编写代码。您可以传递参数并查找输出。

create procedure_name (para1 int,para2 decimal)
as
select * from TableName

一般来说，存储过程是一个“SQL函数”。他们有:

-- a name
CREATE PROCEDURE spGetPerson
-- parameters
CREATE PROCEDURE spGetPerson(@PersonID int)
-- a body
CREATE PROCEDURE spGetPerson(@PersonID int)
AS
SELECT FirstName, LastName ....
FROM People
WHERE PersonID = @PersonID

这是一个以T-SQL为重点的示例。存储过程可以执行大多数SQL语句，返回标量值和基于表的值，并且被认为更安全，因为它们可以防止SQL注入攻击。