---
title: "Associate Vs. Allocate: DB2 Stored Procedure Example"
description: "Here's an example of DB2 Stored procedure and explained the purpose of Associate and Allocate."
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date: 2016-10-24
modified: 2026-10-10
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---

# Associate Vs. Allocate: DB2 Stored Procedure Example

Here’[s all about](https://srinimf.com/2015/02/22/nested-cursor-db2/) the Associate/Allocate cursor. The purpose of Associate is to get the cursor from the [Stored procedure](https://srinimf.com/2015/08/17/calling-stored-procedure-in-db2-a-best-example/) that’s called. The Allocate just assigns a cursor name to it.

## DB2 nested [Stored procedure](https://srinimf.com/2013/02/19/stored_procedure_cobol/)

```
CREATE PROCEDURE EMP_NAME (OUT p_name VARCHAR(30)) 
  BEGIN
    DECLARE result RESULT_SET_LOCATOR VARYING;
 
    -- Call the procedure returning the result set
    CALL emp();
 
    -- Get a cursor for the result set
    ASSOCIATE RESULT SET LOCATOR (result) WITH PROCEDURE emp;
    ALLOCATE cur CURSOR FOR RESULT SET result;
 
    -- Cursor already open, so you can start fetching rows
    FETCH cur INTO p_name;
    -- ...
    CLOSE cur;
END
```

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