What is the difference between a user defined function and a Stored procedure?

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What is the difference between a user defined function and a Stored procedure?

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A user defined function and stored procedures are almost similar but there exists a difference between their implementation procedures in the code. Stored procedure needs to be invoked whereas a UDF can be used like any other statement.

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