Question

I have a stored procedure which has to get a password from my Users table.

I am using a Username as a parameter. What is the best way to get the row where the Username field’s contents match the Username parameter, and then the password (as this is the Username/password pair for one user).

Cursors are one way to iterate over a rowset but these aren’t desirable.

I am on Sql Server 2005.

Answer 1

It sounds like you just need a standard SELECT query:

SELECT username_column, password_column FROM your_table WHERE username_column = @usernameparam 

(Or am I misunderstanding the question?)