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Execute Stored Procedures In Background</h2> <p>You can start procedure in background using the [name of the procedure][params]& syntax. This feature forks another ISQL process and leaves the other on background so there will be two separate clients running separate client connections:</p> <div> <pre class="programlisting"> SQL>create procedure test() { return 'my simple test'; } ; Done. -- 0 msec. SQL>test()& SQL> Connected to OpenLink Virtuoso Driver: 05.07.3033 OpenLink Virtuoso ODBC Driver OpenLink Interactive SQL (Virtuoso), version 0.9849b. Type HELP; for help and EXIT; to exit. 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