Database

Re: Nesting a stored proc call in a where clause?

23-Sep-09 14:23

Here's the short question - how can I make this work?

create function callme()
returns TABLE AS
RETURN(exec MyExistingSP)

And the longer question on why I'd want it to...

* I've got several stored procs that return table result sets that are fairly large (or larger than I care to scroll through)
* Often, I'm doing ad-hoc queries where I only want to see one or two rows returned by the stored proc.
* If I need to whip up a function/stored proc to allow this, it would be handy if it would take the stored proc name as a parameter
* Would also be nice to take a subset of the column list in a select, or add an order by
* I'm most interested in SQL Server 2000+
* Performance is not an issue (within some reason...), as this is only for typed in ad-hoc queries

select column1, column2
from callme('MySP')
where id > 500
order by LastModified --> would be nice to see the subset...

I can do this easily with a multiline function for each stored proc, but it's not worth that much work. I keep hoping there's just a twist of syntax I'm missing, but I'm afraid that's not the case...

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Dave

Dave290923-Sep-09 14:54

Re: Nesting a stored proc call in a where clause?

23-Sep-09 14:54

And one other gotcha....OPENROWSET() isn't enabled on some servers I have to work with...

-Dave

Ashfield23-Sep-09 21:16

Ashfield

23-Sep-09 21:16

Dave2909 wrote:
create function callme()
returns TABLE AS
RETURN(exec MyExistingSP)

You can't do this -
1. You can't call a proc from a function
2. You can't pipe the output from a proc into a table

Regarding only getting the first few rows, try

SET ROWCOUNT 10
exec sproc
SET ROWCOUNT 0

This will just return the 1st 10 rows.

As for the rest of it, the only way to do it would be some pretty complex dynamic sql.

Bob
Ashfield Consultants Ltd
Proud to be a 2009 Code Project MVP

Re: Nesting a stored proc call in a where clause?

Dave290924-Sep-09 12:37

How we can handle mails if exchange server is down

24-Sep-09 12:37

Thanks, Bob...just wish there was a different answer.

The more I think about this though, it just seems that there really should be some way to do a sub-query against a stored proc's result set from SQL Server management studio without having to define specific tables, or do anything funky like parsing the SP to auto-create a result table. Perhaps I just need to add this into a feature request for MS.

Just in case...anyone else have a suggestion on how to narrow down the results of a stored proc from within Management studio? Something like being able to run a query against the results window sure would be handy.

Thanks,

Dave

SQL AZURE Service

abhigad23-Sep-09 13:38

abhigad

23-Sep-09 13:38

I got the SQL Azure Service up and running. It is running of the hosted server

MyCloud Service

While working on this app, I found some interesting things. Here is a short summary

1. select * from sys.objects IS YOUR NEW OBJECT BROWSER

2. truncate table tablename will not work in SQL Azure - yes,drop and delete does work.

3. select @@servername will not work but select @@version does work

4. DO NOT TRY exec sp_help and exec sp_who – it will not work

5.Insert WILL NOT WORK if you forget to add a primary key on your table - For example

create table test
(
my_id int,
my_name varchar(10)
)
insert into test values (1,'abhi')

and you will get an error –“ Heaps can not be replicated tables. Please create a clustered index for the table.” . Just add a PK on my_id and things will work as expected

6. Migrating data from your local DB to the cloud is not easy - check out http://www.stephenforte.net

7. Copy connection string from your https://sql.azure.com/ServerInfo.aspx page - this is the easiest and fastest way to connect your app with SQL Azure

abhi
Zimbatech Solutions

Anuj Banka23-Sep-09 0:31

Re: How we can handle mails if exchange server is down

23-Sep-09 0:31

How we can handle mails using trigger if exchange server is down. i Am sending mail on insert of any record in table through trigger. But if exchange server is down how we can handle mails.

Johan Hakkesteegt23-Sep-09 0:49

Johan Hakkesteegt

23-Sep-09 0:49

We solved this problem, by sending emails through an application.

The application will try to send the email as usual, but in case the exchange server is down, or the email can not be sent for some other reason, all relevant data (addresses, message body, etc.) is stored into a database table instead.

Another application then checks the table periodically, and will attempt to send any message there. If sending is successful the app will flag the message as sent.

My advice is free, and you may get what you paid for.

Re: How we can handle mails if exchange server is down

Anuj Banka23-Sep-09 1:31

Re: How we can handle mails if exchange server is down

23-Sep-09 1:31

thanks bro but i dont want use another application to send mails. I want to send mails through triggers.
I know we can use web service to send mail. But i m tring to send mails through triggers.

Johan Hakkesteegt23-Sep-09 2:23

Johan Hakkesteegt

23-Sep-09 2:23

The core problem is, what happens when your trigger is unable to send a message, right?

The question is what do you want to happen? Should your solution use an alternative medium (for example POP)? But what if the connection between the database server and the rest of the network is broken? Then you won't be able to access any alternative at all.

From your original message I understand that you are already sending emails through triggers.

Why not use our approach, but adapted to work with triggers?
Trigger --> if sending message fails --> message to table
SQL job --> check table every minute or so --> send message using same code you are using in your triggers
Message sent successful --> flag message in table as sent or delete from table.

My advice is free, and you may get what you paid for.

Re: How we can handle mails if exchange server is down

Anuj Banka23-Sep-09 2:48

Re: How we can handle mails if exchange server is down

23-Sep-09 2:48

thanks for ur response i m agree with ur answer. i think taking flag is better option.

Johan Hakkesteegt23-Sep-09 2:49

Johan Hakkesteegt

23-Sep-09 2:49

Your welcome, however please vote "5" or "good answer" next time. You have marked my answer as bad.

My advice is free, and you may get what you paid for.

Re: How we can handle mails if exchange server is down

Anuj Banka23-Sep-09 17:53

23-Sep-09 17:53

ohh sorry i dont know...i don't do it intensionally

Query Problem

Syed Shahid Hussain22-Sep-09 23:48

Syed Shahid Hussain

22-Sep-09 23:48

Hi

I'm using the in query like

select * from table where col in ('1,2,3,4')

that is a simple query but i'm here in norway where they use (,) as a decimal point and (.) as comma. They when I use the query like this

select * from table where col in ('1.2')

it works fine but when I use query like this

select * from table where col in ('1.2.3.4.5')

It gives an error that error converting datatype......

What is the solution of tis hell.

Thanks

Syed Shahid Hussain

Eddy Vluggen23-Sep-09 0:11

Eddy Vluggen

23-Sep-09 0:11

The solution is to use the decimal separator as a decimal separator, and not as a separator for arguments.

select * from table where col in ('1,2,3,4')

Now, if you want to use four decimals in that place, you'd use the English notation;

select * from table where col in ('1.2,2.9,3.83,4.0')

It's a good idea to keep the database culture-agnostic, and to format the decimal just before displaying. That means that each number is treated internally like we're in England, and that everything that gets displayed is formatted from that generic English form into the current culture.

I are Troll Smile | :)

Syed Shahid Hussain23-Sep-09 0:49

Syed Shahid Hussain

23-Sep-09 0:49

Thanks Eddy

But my problem is some thing different

the col field is nvarchar and now i want to use it in IN query. There is no floating point here. then what will be the query it all values in the column are in integers. How can i put them in IN query.

Any idea about that.

Thanks

Syed Shahid Hussain

Eddy Vluggen23-Sep-09 1:40

Eddy Vluggen

23-Sep-09 1:40

Syed Shahid Hussain wrote:
How can i put them in IN query.

My apologies, there was another error that I missed. The arguments after the IN operator are summed within a varchar (a string), and SQL expects a list of items, not a string. It tries to convert the entire string to the datatype of "col".

This code should run fine, even when the locale is Norsk;

SET LANGUAGE 'Norwegian'
DECLARE @myTable AS TABLE ( id INT)
INSERT INTO @myTable VALUES(1)
INSERT INTO @myTable VALUES(2)
INSERT INTO @myTable VALUES(3)
INSERT INTO @myTable VALUES(4)
SELECT * FROM @myTable WHERE id IN (1,3)

As you can see, the arguments in the select-list are separated by comma's (allowed, since they're not decimals) and there are no quotes (indicating multiple values to check against, as opposed to a single varchar value)

That would translate to your query like this;

select * from table where col in (1, 2, 3, 4)

Or for decimals;

select * from table where col in (1.2, 3.89)

Make sure that the datatype of col matches the datatype of the values that you put after the IN operator Smile | :)

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Syed Shahid Hussain23-Sep-09 3:40

Syed Shahid Hussain

23-Sep-09 3:40

Thanks a lot

its for you Rose | [Rose]

Syed Shahid Hussain

Eddy Vluggen23-Sep-09 6:18

Eddy Vluggen

23-Sep-09 6:18

Thanks

Dave290924-Sep-09 12:55