An intriguing SQL question

  • I need assistance executing stored procedures that are in a table.

    For example,

    SELECT sp_name

    FROM dbo.stored_proc

    WHERE sp_id = 1

    * sp_id is the ID of the stored procedure in the table.

    EXEC(@sp_name)

    An example of a stored procedure name is:

    dbo.testthis @year,@month

    The stored procedures have varying parameters. I have tried numerous ideas, but I keep receiving the error message "Must declare variable @param_name. I need to code it this way otherwise I would need a ton of IF statements. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  • How else would it make sense to execute them anyway? I've had code in the past that would execute a proc from a list in a table, but the proc had a known set of params. In other words, it would look like this:

    RowID Proc

    1 usp_DoSomethingA ~OrderID~

    When I go to call it, I'd parse for the different parameter tokens, in this case replacing ~OrderID~ with a real order Id. If you're using ADO, you can just execute it from the connection object without any other changes.

    Andy

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/

  • You can't use parameters in a stored procedure that you execute using dynamic SQL. The problem lies in the scope of the variables. Same problem when trying to return values from a procedure.

    The only solution is to construct a table to store the parameters and retrieve them in your stored procedure, or parse the string like Andy proposes.

  • Thank you for your comments. I will use your solution.

  • Andy,

    What you did is exactly what I need to do. I stated that there were varying amounts of parameters because I have more than one stored procedure.

    For example,

    SP_ID SP

    1 dbo.usp_get_order @order_id

    2 dbo.usp_display @order_id, @product

    Do you have the SQL code for this?

    Thank you for your help.

  • I used to have codes to do exactly the same thing. I think the key is to use the following syntax:

    EXEC @ProcName @Parameter1, @Parameter2

    Good luck!

    YCH

  • Hi pop022,

    for performance reasons I would suggest NOT to name your sprocs sp_*.

    AFAIK SQL Server will always look first into master for sp_*

    Just my $0.02

    Frank

    http://www.insidesql.de

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    Frank Kalis
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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  • Frank is correct. Naming stored procedures not residing in master with sp_ as the first 3 characters will result in an SP:CacheMiss, a [COMPILE] lock, and a scan through a second time to try and find the execution plan. This effectively serializes the stored procedure because the [COMPILE] lock is exclusive.

    K. Brian Kelley

    http://www.truthsolutions.com/

    Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring

    http://www.netimpress.com/

    K. Brian Kelley
    @kbriankelley

  • I found a way around this issue. Thanks for the help.

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