May 8, 2014 at 4:13 am
Hi all,
I am using a cursor (i know - but this is actually something that is a procedural loop).
So effectively i have a table of names of stored procedures. I now have a store proc that loops around these procs and runs each one in order.
Now i am thinking i would like to be able to set the table it loops around in a variable at the start - is it possible to do this? So effectively use a tablename in a variable to use in the sql to define a cursor?
Many thanks
Dan
May 8, 2014 at 4:21 am
danielfountain (5/8/2014)
Hi all,I am using a cursor (i know - but this is actually something that is a procedural loop).
So effectively i have a table of names of stored procedures. I now have a store proc that loops around these procs and runs each one in order.
Now i am thinking i would like to be able to set the table it loops around in a variable at the start - is it possible to do this? So effectively use a tablename in a variable to use in the sql to define a cursor?
Many thanks
Dan
Passing the table name in a variable means that you will have to do this with dynamic sql. No problems there and straight forward really. Complexities start to pop up though if the tables have different structure, column names, data types etc..
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May 8, 2014 at 4:37 am
Hi,
To answer your question - the tables will all be identical, just with different procedures within.
I have done dynamic SQL before with sp_executesql however i cant work out the way to use that as a cursor?
Thanks for your advice.
Dan
May 8, 2014 at 5:05 am
To get you started
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Sample data
USE tempdb;
GO
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = N'TBL_STOREDPROC_001' AND TABLE_SCHEMA = N'dbo')
DROP TABLE dbo.TBL_STOREDPROC_001;
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = N'TBL_STOREDPROC_002' AND TABLE_SCHEMA = N'dbo')
DROP TABLE dbo.TBL_STOREDPROC_002;
CREATE TABLE dbo.TBL_STOREDPROC_001
(
STOREDPROC_ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED NOT NULL
,STOREDPROC_NAME NVARCHAR(1024) NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE dbo.TBL_STOREDPROC_002
(
STOREDPROC_ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED NOT NULL
,STOREDPROC_NAME NVARCHAR(1024) NOT NULL
);
INSERT INTO dbo.TBL_STOREDPROC_001 (STOREDPROC_NAME)
VALUES
('STORED PROC 1 FROM TABLE 1')
,('STORED PROC 2 FROM TABLE 1')
,('STORED PROC 3 FROM TABLE 1');
INSERT INTO dbo.TBL_STOREDPROC_002 (STOREDPROC_NAME)
VALUES
('STORED PROC 1 FROM TABLE 2')
,('STORED PROC 2 FROM TABLE 2')
,('STORED PROC 3 FROM TABLE 2');
Simple code example
USE tempdb;
GO
DECLARE @TABLE_NAME NVARCHAR(1024) = N'dbo.TBL_STOREDPROC_002';
DECLARE @SQL_STR NVARCHAR(MAX) = REPLACE(N'
DECLARE @PROC_NAME NVARCHAR(MAX) = N'''';
DECLARE R_SET CURSOR FAST_FORWARD FOR
SELECT
N''EXEC '' + TP.STOREDPROC_NAME + NCHAR(59)
FROM {{@TABLE_NAME}} TP
ORDER BY TP.STOREDPROC_ID;
OPEN R_SET;
FETCH NEXT FROM R_SET INTO @PROC_NAME;
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
PRINT @PROC_NAME;
FETCH NEXT FROM R_SET INTO @PROC_NAME;
END
CLOSE R_SET;
DEALLOCATE R_SET;
',N'{{@TABLE_NAME}}',@TABLE_NAME);
EXEC (@SQL_STR);
May 8, 2014 at 7:46 am
danielfountain (5/8/2014)
Hi all,I am using a cursor (i know - but this is actually something that is a procedural loop).
So effectively i have a table of names of stored procedures. I now have a store proc that loops around these procs and runs each one in order.
Now i am thinking i would like to be able to set the table it loops around in a variable at the start - is it possible to do this? So effectively use a tablename in a variable to use in the sql to define a cursor?
Many thanks
Dan
You might be surprised. From your description I don't think you need a cursor. Unless there are parameters derived from another source you could do this using dynamic sql in a single step. It might be possible even if the parameters do come from elsewhere. Without some details around what you are doing though it is hard to say.
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May 8, 2014 at 4:04 pm
You can use a GLOBAL cursor and use dynamic SQL just to declare the cursor. You can process it in static code, including deallocating the cursor at the end.
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May 9, 2014 at 8:06 am
Just remember that if you use a GLOBAL cursor, there could be a serious amount of contention between concurrent runs.
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