Question

I have a stored procedure which executes another procedure inside it. The second one sometimes takes a while to run but the first seems to finish before waiting for the second. This has resulted in missing data, which should have been updated by the second procedure. Is there a timeout limit within the first procedure and can this be extended?

Answer 1

create a new table:

LogInfo
LogID     int auto number/identity primary key
LogDate   date default current date and time
LogValue  string

in each procedure add INSERTs like this:

INSERT INTO LogInfo (LogValue) VALUES ('starting procedure A')
...
INSERT INTO LogInfo (LogValue) VALUES ('Calling procedure B')
...

INSERT INTO LogInfo (LogValue) VALUES ('ending procedure A')

then do this

SELECT * FROM LogInfo ORDER BY LogID 

to see what happened, hopefully you will see this because procedures run sequentially and B can not finish after A:

starting procedure A
Calling procedure B
starting procedure B
ending procedure B
ending procedure A