Hi everyone

I thought I would use a stored routine to clean up some of my more complex SQL statements. From what I've read, it seems impossible to use a stored procedure within an sql statement, and a stored function only returns a single value when what I need is a result set. I am using mySQL v5.0

SELECT p.`id`, gi.`id`
FROM `sport`.`players` AS p JOIN `sport`.`gameinstances` AS gi
ON p.`id` = gi.`playerid`                       
WHERE (p.`playerid` IN (CALL findPlayers`("Canada", "2002")))
    AND (gi.`instanceid` NOT IN (CALL findGameInstances`("Canada", "2002")));

For example, the procedures 'findPlayers' and 'findGameInstances' are are stored routines that execute some SQL and return a result set. I would prefer not to include their code directly within the statement above.