Question

Given the following two SQL Server 2005 stored procedures (samples only):

ProcA:

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[ProcA]
AS
BEGIN
    EXEC ProcB
END

ProcB:

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[ProcB]
AS
BEGIN
    WAITFOR DELAY '000:00:10'
END

When ProcA is executed, it predictably takes 10 seconds since it is waiting for ProcB to complete.

Is it possible to have ProcA call ProcB asynchronously, so that ProcA returns as soon as it has called ProcB and does not wait for ProcB to complete before returning?

Answer 1

I found this answer and subsequent blog post which I ended up using to make my stored procedures run asynchronously.