Simple SQL question

I would like to use a procedure for a simple select statement, so that it can be called by the same name each time anywhere from an application. I would like to use something like this:

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE GET_USER
(

     USERNAME                   IN      VARCHAR2,
     USERPASSWORD         IN      VARCHAR2,
     USERID                          OUT    NUMBER

AS

BEGIN SELECT TBL_USERS.USER_ID
INTO USERID
FROM TBL_USERS

WHERE   TBL_USERS.USER_NAME            =     USERNAME
AND     TBL_USERS.USER_PASSWORD     =     USERPASSWORD;

END; Where each time the procedure get_user gets called from a java application, the user id will get returned when the username and the userpassword is given as parameters.

Please help. Thanks in advance! Received on Thu Feb 17 2000 - 00:00:00 CST