newbie: What is wrong in this SP?

Hey

I'm new to MySql5 and I'm trying to write my first stored procedure. Below
is a stored procedure I'm trying to add to the database, but it gives errors
(the 2 errors are listed below too)... I'm stucked here.

CREATE PROCEDURE SaveProperty()
BEGIN
DECLARE @var1 INT;
END;

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual
that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near
'@var1
INT' at line 3
mysql> END;
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual
that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near
'END'
at line 1

Any suggestions to what I'm doing wrong are welcome!

Jeff

"Jeff" <it_consultant1@hotmail.com.NOSPAM> wrote:
>
> CREATE PROCEDURE SaveProperty()
> BEGIN
> DECLARE @var1 INT;
> END;
>
> ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the
> manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right
> syntax to use near '@var1 INT' at line 3

> Any suggestions to what I'm doing wrong are welcome!

You're trying to declare a user variable. User variables have names
starting with @ and must not be declared. The scope of a user variable
is the connection, the scope of a local variable is the surrounding
BEGIN ... END block. Local variable names must not start with @.
Try this:

CREATE PROCEDURE SaveProperty()
BEGIN
DECLARE var1 INT;
END;


XL
--
Axel Schwenke, Support Engineer, MySQL AB

Online User Manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/
MySQL User Forums: http://forums.mysql.com/

thanks


"Axel Schwenke" <axel.schwenke@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:99u0pe.d77.ln@xl.homelinux.org...
> "Jeff" <it_consultant1@hotmail.com.NOSPAM> wrote:
>>
>> CREATE PROCEDURE SaveProperty()
>> BEGIN
>> DECLARE @var1 INT;
>> END;
>>
>> ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the
>> manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right
>> syntax to use near '@var1 INT' at line 3
>
>> Any suggestions to what I'm doing wrong are welcome!
>
> You're trying to declare a user variable. User variables have names
> starting with @ and must not be declared. The scope of a user variable
> is the connection, the scope of a local variable is the surrounding
> BEGIN ... END block. Local variable names must not start with @.
> Try this:
>
> CREATE PROCEDURE SaveProperty()
> BEGIN
> DECLARE var1 INT;
> END;
>
>
> XL
> --
> Axel Schwenke, Support Engineer, MySQL AB
>
> Online User Manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/
> MySQL User Forums: http://forums.mysql.com/