Question

I have a problem/question that I may have been staring at too long today.

I have a stored procedure that receives data from an web application. The data comes in as smalldate time format. I am trying to pass this information to a second stored procedure but the second one won’t fire unless the data is in single quotes. Would it be better to cast this as varchar?

The SET @CompletedDate must be ‘2010-01-20 15:28:00″ for obvious reasons. How do I pass this information to the second procedure?

DECLARE @return_value int
    ,@TaskID int
    ,@CompletedDate smalldatetime
SET @TaskID = 90
SET @CompletedDate = 2010-01-20 15:28:00

EXEC    @return_value = [dbo].[usp_Task_Completion]
        @TaskID = @TaskID,
        @CompletedDate = @CompletedDate

Here is the usp_Task_Completion SP

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[usp_Task_Completion]
@TaskID int 
,@CompletedDate smalldatetime
AS
BEGIN

SET NOCOUNT ON;

--Mark Transaction as complete
UPDATE dbo.Task
SET Completed = 1
    ,CompletedDate =  @CompletedDate
WHERE TaskID = @TaskID

Answer 1

no because a varchar will also have to be enclosed in single quotes, just put quotes around it

DECLARE @return_value int
    ,@TaskID int
    ,@CompletedDate smalldatetime
SET @TaskID = 90
SET @CompletedDate = '2010-01-20 15:28:00'

EXEC    @return_value = [dbo].[usp_Task_Completion]
        @TaskID = @TaskID,
        @CompletedDate = @CompletedDate