Example

Table of Contents

• Before you start
• Infinite Loop Example

Before you start

SQL> SET SESSION sql_mode='ORACLE';

Infinite Loop Example

DELIMITER /

BEGIN

LOOP
  SELECT 'Hello world from MariaDB anonymous PL/SQL block!';
END LOOP; 

END;
/

DELIMITER ;

Summary: In this article we have a short look at a simple MySQL example program written in Vala.

Recently a customer pointed me to a programming language called Vala. Vala is a C-style programming language generating C code which afterwards can be compiled and linked with the normal gcc.
This I found pretty useful to not mess around with pointers and all this stuff in C and to be capable anyway to write C programs for some projects I had in mind in my head since long.
Vala is mostly used around the Gnome …