June 9, 2008 at 2:30 pm
I'm trying to create a simple select statement that will allow me to prompt whoever is running it to enter search criteria in a prompt. Can this be done?
SELECT count(*) from table1 where field1 = ;
I'm using sybase : ISQL and I am finding it does not like he ampersand & or the pound sign # I've seen used in other samples to prompt the user for information.
June 9, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Can't say I know how to do this in Sybase, if it's different from SQL Server, but how you'd do it in SQL Server is generally with a stored procedure:
create proc Counter
(@Field1_in int)
as
SELECT count(*) from table1 where field1 = @Field1_in;
(That example assumes that Field1 is an integer data type.)
To get the data from this, you'd run:
exec dbo.Counter 1
With "1" being the number you want to run.
There's more to it, but that's a basic introduction.
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