Question

I have a table with 3 columns: username, password and permission. I am trying to write a stored procedure to accept @username as an input parameter and then output a parameter @permission. How do I do this?

Answer 1

More might be needed, but according to your question, this is the code:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetPermission]
    @userName varchar(50),
    @permission int output
AS
BEGIN

    select @permission = PERMISSION from USERS where UserName = @userName

END;

EDIT:

Another option is to create a function, example:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[GetPermission](@userName [varchar(50)])
RETURNS [int] 
AS 
BEGIN

    declare @permission int

    select @permission = PERMISSION from USERS where UserName = @userName

    return @permission

END;