Showing posts with label functionality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label functionality. Show all posts

Thursday, March 29, 2012

EXECuting sps within sps (using return params)

Hi all,
To optimise certain functionality in my app I want to do a few inserts after another by executing the whole lot in one procedure. I want to use the return param from some procedures (RETURN @.@.IDENTITY) as input for some of the other procedures.

I am getting errors when I compile the proc:
Line 10: Incorrect syntax near the keyword "EXEC"
Same error on Line 11...


CREATE PROCEDURE addTemplateDetail
@.TemplateID int,
@.GroupNameID int,
@.SubGroupNameID int=null,
@.MethodID int,
@.AnalyteID int
AS
DECLARE @.TemplateGroupNameID int
DECLARE @.TemplateMethodID int
SET @.TemplateGroupNameID=(EXEC addTemplateGroupName @.TemplateID, @.GroupNameID)
SET @.TemplateMethodID=(EXEC addTemplateMethod @.TemplateGroupNameID, @.SubGroupNameID, @.MethodID)
EXEC addTemplateAnalyte(@.TemplateMethodID,@.AnalyteID)

I also tried adding brackets around the input params for the EXECed sp's, but that generated even more errors...
Can somebody see what I am doing wrong?
TIA.Never mind.
I changed the two lines with return params to:

EXEC @.TemplateGroupNameID=addTemplateGroupName @.TemplateID, @.GroupNameID
EXEC@.TemplateMethodID=addTemplateMethod @.TemplateGroupNameID, @.SubGroupNameID, @.MethodID

Hope that will somebody else too...sql