Question

I have a SQL Server stored procedure that normally runs fine. However, for one record as I walk through the stored procedure it is “skipping” a line without running it.

if not exists ( select * ... ) begin
    exec @Result = InsertRecord_A @AccountNo, @ID, @EventID;
    if @Result <> 0 return @Result;

    -- Do something else
    insert into ...
    select ...
end

That line, exec @Result... is being skipped in this case. Normally it launches the procedure InsertRecord_A but I can’t get it to run on this record.

Any ideas?

Update: There is the following error message:

Msg 201, Level 16, State 4, Procedure InsertRecord_A, Line 0
Procedure or function 'InsertRecord_A' expects parameter '@EventID', which was not supplied.

What is odd about the error message, is when walking through it, @EventID shows it has a value of 460 which is correct.

Answer 1

Try explicitly setting the parameters to the correct values, rather than passing them by ordinal position and hoping they’re in the correct order:

exec @Result = InsertRecord_A @AccountNo = @AccountNo, @ID = @ID, @EventID = @EventID;

This is of course assumes that your InsertRecord_A procedure does take 3 procedures with the same names as your variables.

If you’re not sure about this, you can run exec sp_help InsertRecord_A or look in the sys.parameters table to check what they’re called.