EXECUTE SQL - Language Statements EXECUTE execute a prepared statement EXECUTE plan_name [ (parameter [, ...] ) ] [ INTO [ TEMPORARY | TEMP ] table ] EXECUTE is used to execute a previously prepared statement. Since prepared statements only exist for the duration of a session, the prepared statement must have been created by a PREPARE statement executed earlier in the current session. If the PREPARE statement that created the statement specified some parameters, a compatible set of parameters must be passed to the EXECUTE statement, or else an error is raised. Note that (unlike functions) prepared statements are not overloaded based on the type or number of their parameters; the name of a prepared statement must be unique within a database session. Like SELECT INTO, EXECUTE can store the results of executing a query into a newly-created table, by specifying an INTO clause. For more information on this behavior, see . For more information on the creation and usage of prepared statements, see . plan_name The name of the prepared statement to execute. parameter The actual value of a parameter to the prepared statement. This must be an expression yielding a value of a type compatible with the data type specified for this parameter position in the PREPARE command that created the prepared statement. table The name of the table in which to store the results of executing the statement (if it is a SELECT). If no table is specified, the results are returned to the client (as normal). The SQL standard includes an EXECUTE statement, but it is only for use in embedded SQL. This version of the EXECUTE statement also uses a somewhat different syntax.