DROP STATEMENT [ owner.]statement-name

statement-name : 
identifier 
| hostvar

The DROP STATEMENT statement frees resources used by the named prepared statement. These resources are allocated by a successful PREPARE statement, and are normally not freed until the database connection is released.

Must have prepared the statement.

None.

• PREPARE statement [ESQL]

The following are examples of DROP STATEMENT use:

EXEC SQL DROP STATEMENT S1;
EXEC SQL DROP STATEMENT :stmt;