How can we create view from a stored procedure in sql server 2005

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How can we create view from a stored procedure in sql server 2005

vaibhav.a

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December 26, 2008 at 6:31 am

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I want to create a view using the stored procedure named '' GETBILLVIEW ''.
AS stored procedure is returning dynamic columns. And I want all columns in view....plz help me out as soon as possible.
Thanx in advance..:)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734667 More actions · Answer 1

Views cannot be created from stored procedures. They are created from tables.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189918(SQL.90).aspx

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003925 More actions · Answer 2

Ummmm.... Anyone know for sure if OPENROWSET, OPENQUERY, or OPENDATASOURCE can be used in a view or not? That could be the ticket.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003925 More actions · Answer 3

Never mind... the answer is YES... you CAN use OPENROWSET in the view. What that means is that you CAN use a stored procedure as the source for a view. Just remember, you won't be able to pass any parameters to it when it's in the view...

--===== Create a view based on the stored procedure sp_Who

CREATE VIEW dbo.OpenRowSetTest

AS

SELECT *

FROM OPENROWSET('SQLOLEDB','Server=yourservernamehere;Trusted_Connection=Yes;Database=Master',

'Set FmtOnly OFF; EXEC dbo.sp_Who')

GO

--===== Select from the view that uses the stored procedure as a source

SELECT * FROM OpenRowSetTest

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeffrey Williams SSC Guru Points: 90262 More actions · Answer 4

Jeff Moden showed a way to do this, but I would caution you about doing this for your project. Creating a view with dynamic columns is going to cause so many other problems that you will encounter that it just won't be worth it.

The biggest issue is what is going to happen when you access the view a second time and a different set of data is returned? With a completely different set of columns and datatypes for each column?

I am not sure SQL Server will allow that - and, if it does in fact allow it to happen I don't know how badly it is going to break your downstream code. Just think what SQL Server would need to do to be able to access that view from multiple processes, returning different sets of data for each process - at the same time.

Jeffrey Williams
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