Question

I have a stored procedure which takes a single parameter containing single value.
I want to pass a collection of values to the procedure one by one and get the combined result into one table . Is this possible ?

Currently I am using cursor to execute procedure in loop but only result from passing first value in the collection is obtained.

declare @clientid varchar(10)

create table #tmpp(secid varchar(10))
insert into #tmpp values(2319)
insert into #tmpp values(2855)
insert into #tmpp values(1303)


    declare cur CURSOR LOCAL for
        select secid from #tmpp 

    open cur

    fetch next from cur into @seclientid

    while @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN



    exec getReportforclient @clientid
        fetch next from cur into @clientid
    END

    close cur
    deallocate cur
    drop table #tmpp

If this is too obfuscated / unclear/ silly, can somebody please provide me an alternative ?
Any help is most appreciated . Thanks.

Answer 1

There probably is a way to this without using cursors, but without taking a look at your stored procedure we can’t help too much on that. You can create a table (temporary or not) that has the same structure that the results of your sp and insert the results into it. Something like this:

DECLARE @clientid VARCHAR(10)

CREATE TABLE #tmpp(secid VARCHAR(10))
INSERT INTO #tmpp VALUES(2319)
INSERT INTO #tmpp VALUES(2855)
INSERT INTO #tmpp VALUES(1303)


CREATE TABLE #Results(col1 INT, col2.... -- create the table that will hold your 
                                         -- results

DECLARE cur CURSOR LOCAL for
SELECT secid 
FROM #tmpp 

OPEN cur
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @seclientid
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 
BEGIN
    INSERT INTO #Results
    exec getReportforclient @clientid

    FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @clientid
END

CLOSE cur
DEALLOCATE cur
DROP TABLE #tmpp

SELECT *
FROM #Results