How to write such a stored function in MySQL?

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Published on 2010-01-28T05:40:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 21:53 UTC
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The function essentially contains 2 statements:

statement1; and statement2;

If statement1 fetches some records,just return them as result;If it doesn't fetch any result,return the result of statement2.

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