Question

i have an SP that executes 1 SP at the moment

EXEC mpSPAccess.PostIdSelect @PostDate = @TodaysDate

The SP does something like this (very simplyfied :))

SELECT id FROM Post WHERE DateCreated = @PostDate

After this SP is Executed i want to use the id i got from PostIdSelect as an parameter for more SPs Like this:

EXEC mpSPAccess.GetSomethingWithThePostIdSelect @PostId = @PostIdFromTheFirstSpSELECT
EXEC mpSPAccess.GetAnotherSomethingWithThePostIdSelect @PostId = @PostIdFromTheFirstSpSELECT

Is this possible in some way?

Answer 1

You could just set up your PostIdSelect stored proc to return an int or whatever appropriate output parameter representing the ID you select, then feed that to your other procs, something like:

CREATE PROCEDURE PostIdSelect

     @PostDate datetime,
     @PostId int OUTPUT

AS

SELECT @PostID = id FROM Post WHERE DateCreated = @PostDate

GO

Then to utilize this,

DECLARE @OutputID int

EXEC PostIdSelect '1/28/2010', @OutputID

SELECT @OutputID    -- Optional, just to view the resulting output ID

EXEC GetSomethingWithThePostIdSelect @PostID = @OutputID

One note, with your initial SELECT statement, you probably want to use SELECT TOP 1 ID or something to prevent multiple values from being returned, unless you know for certain that DateCreated will be unique to every single record in the table.