Beginners' guide to stored procedures with MySQL?

Question

I\'ve Googled but come up with nothing that I can get my head around.

Are the performance gains from using stored procedures significant?

Would I still want

Answer 1

Consider this a gentle introduction to stored procedures in MySQL: http://www.mysqltutorial.org/mysql-stored-procedure-tutorial.aspx

You sure can create/manage stored procedures in phpMyAdmin.