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IsStoredProcedure

Martin Gleeson

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December 23, 2010 at 3:25 am

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Just wondering if anyone knows what this Execute SQL Task property actually does under the hood?
Have tried playing around with it calling sprocs and sql statements while profiling but darned if I can figure out what difference it actually makes. 🙂
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Martin

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ssisdiva SSC Enthusiast Points: 137 More actions · Answer 1

Hi,

This is the information which we can get from the SQL Server Books Online.

Indicates whether the specified SQL statement to be run is a stored procedure. This property is read/write only if the task uses the ADO connection manager. Otherwise the property is read-only and its value is false.

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246986 More actions · Answer 2

namratha.vangara (12/23/2010)
Hi,
This is the information which we can get from the SQL Server Books Online.
Indicates whether the specified SQL statement to be run is a stored procedure. This property is read/write only if the task uses the ADO connection manager. Otherwise the property is read-only and its value is false.

That's all well and good, but I think the question is: "so what?"

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Martin Gleeson Ten Centuries Points: 1096 More actions · Answer 3

Yep Phil, you read my mind!

Books online is all well and good but isn't really telling us what effect this property has on the package or how it handles the response from the stored procedure specified in the Execute SQL Task.

The best I can find is this understandably vague explanation by Allan Mitchell: "Certain optimisations are made by the task if it knows that the query is a Stored Procedure invocation. The docs say this will always be false unless the connection is an ADO connection."

http://www.sqlis.com/post/The-Execute-SQL-Task.aspx

I was hoping someone might be able either to point me in the direction of a more in depth explanation of the ins-and-outs of this property or give me a sturdy explanation why it should or shouldn't be set.

Or explain to me that I'm being a bit thick and missed the obvious. 😉

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259115 More actions · Answer 4

There is a property IsStoredProcedure?

Never heard of it 🙂

(that says enough I think :-))

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004409 More actions · Answer 5

I think it's there as a property so that you could "take stock" of what's in your server... sort of like what you might have to do if you were creating a data dictionary or if you saw something in profiler and just wanted to know what it was without having to scan through hundreds of SQL Server objects and without having to resort to sys.objects queries.

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