Regarding stored procedure

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Regarding stored procedure

boobalanmca07

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November 27, 2012 at 6:11 am

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I am using two sql statements in stored procedure,
the two sql query is update and alter.
in some times i need to execute update query only,at that time how to execute stored procedure

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323504 More actions · Answer 1

boobalanmca07 (11/27/2012)
I am using two sql statements in stored procedure,
the two sql query is update and alter.
in some times i need to execute update query only,at that time how to execute stored procedure

ALTER? to alter a table, it would only need to occur once, ever, in the database; doesn't really belong in the procedure.

otherwise you end up having to test every time whether to do it or not, which, since it will occur once, wastes a little bit of time checking to see if it needs to be done.

so my advice is to rethink where to put the alter statement...i don't think it belongs in a procedure.

regardless, you'd have to do something like this:

CREATE PROCEDURE MyProc(@paramters int)

AS

BEGIN

IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1

from sys.objects objz

left outer join sys.columns colz

on objz.object_id = colz.objectid

where objz.name = 'MyTable'

and colz. name = 'MyColumn')

BEGIN --IF

ALTER TABLE MyTable ADD MyColumn sqlvariant

END --IF

UPDATE MyTable

SET SomeColumn = SomeValue

WHere AnotherColumn = @paramters

END --PROC

Lowell

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Eugene Elutin SSC Guru Points: 59322 More actions · Answer 2

Could you please post your stored procedure code?

Without seeing what you can see it's hard to provide relevant help. Please read an article from the link at the bottom of my signature about this forum etiquette.

From your very vague description, I can only guess that you have to choices:

1. Create a separate stored proc which only performs UPDATE

2. Amend the existing one to have input parameter as a flag which will determine its behaviour.

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 3

I'd need to see the proc to be able to help out here.

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Eugene Elutin SSC Guru Points: 59322 More actions · Answer 4

Instead of including the code here, OP just duplicated the post:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1389161-149-1.aspx

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