DROP STATEMENT statement [ESQL]

Description

Frees statement resources.

Syntax

DROP STATEMENTowner.]statement-name

Parameters

statement-name:

identifier or host-variable

Examples

Example 1

The following are examples of DROP STATEMENT use:

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

Usage

DROP 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.


Side effects

None.

Standards

Permissions

Must have prepared the statement.

See also

PREPARE statement [ESQL]