Possible to use a With/As statement in a Stored Procedure?

• joshd 1807

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  August 4, 2011 at 2:47 pm

  #97915

  As the title states, is it possible to use a With/As statement within a stored procedure?

  I've been attempting this, but I might be missing a comma or semicolon my stored procedure, causing it to error.

  Has anyone had success using this method?

• Lowell

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  August 4, 2011 at 2:54 pm

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  {Edit} just noticed you posted this in SQL2000, and CTE's are only available in 2005 and up...so the compatibility mode i mentioned isthe most likely culprit if you are using 2000{/Edit}

  make sure your database compatibility is 90 or above, and make sure there is a semicolon in front of the WITH, but you should be fine;

  here's a stupid example for a prototype.

  CREATE procedure [dbo].[sp_find]

  @findcolumn varchar(50)

  AS

  BEGIN

  SET NOCOUNT ON

  ;WITH MyCTE (SortOrder,TableFound,ColumnFound) AS

  (

  SELECT

  1 AS SortOrder,

  sysobjects.name AS TableFound,

  '' AS ColumnFound

  FROM sysobjects

  WHERE sysobjects.xtype IN('U' ,'V')

  AND sysobjects.name LIKE '%' + @findcolumn + '%'

  UNION ALL

  SELECT

  2 AS SortOrder,

  sysobjects.name AS TableFound,

  syscolumns.name AS ColumnFound

  FROM sysobjects

  INNER JOIN syscolumns ON sysobjects.id=syscolumns.id

  WHERE sysobjects.xtype IN('U' ,'V')

  AND syscolumns.name like '%' + @findcolumn + '%'

  )

  SELECT

  TableFound,

  ColumnFound

  FROM MyCTE

  ORDER BY

  SortOrder,

  TableFound,

  ColumnFound

  END

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• joshd 1807

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  August 4, 2011 at 2:58 pm

  #1364002

  I didn't have a semicolon in front of the WITH statement.

  Thanks for the help and prompt response!

• Gail Shaw

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  August 4, 2011 at 3:02 pm

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  Lowell (8/4/2011)

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  and make sure there is a semicolon in front of the WITH,

  Make sure that the statement before the WITH is terminated with a ;. A CTE declaration does not have to begin with a ;, the previous statement (if there is one) must be terminated with one.

  This will run fine:

  WITH test AS

  (SELECT * FROM sys.objects)

  SELECT NAME FROM test WHERE type = 'P';

  No ; necessary because it's the first statement in the batch. If there is a statement before it in the batch, that statement should be terminated with a ;. Since it's becoming recommended practice to terminate all statements with a ;, that shouldn't be a problem.

  SELECT 'First Statement In Batch';

  WITH test AS

  (SELECT * FROM sys.objects)

  SELECT NAME FROM test WHERE type = 'P';

  p.s. considering the forum this is posted in, might be worth mentioning that CTEs are not available in versions of SQL under 2005.

  Gail Shaw
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