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Event handlers are special methods that are declared by the addition FOR EVENT ... OF of the statements METHODS and CLASS-METHODS. Instead being called directly using explicit method calls, they are usually called indirectly using RAISE EVENT. They can only be executed if an event handler is registered using SET HANDLER.