Question

I have created an stored procedure in SQL Server 2008 and it contains the following code snippet:

WHILE (@COUNTER <= @COUNT_ROWSTOBEPROCESSED ) 
    BEGIN
        DECLARE @INFID AS INT =0;
        DECLARE @TPID AS INT =0;        
        SELECT @INFID = InfID FROM @TEMPTABLE WHERE @@ROWCOUNT = @COUNTER;
        print @INFID ;
            SET @COUNTER = @COUNTER + 1;        
    END

But it gives me following result:

(106 row(s) affected)
0
-26
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0 all are zeros ....

I have already values in the temp table but it is not initialized into @INFID variable.

Why it is happening? I don’t understand…

Please help me, if anyone have a solution.

—-Comment—
yeap, I have seen into my code. But here I have already added counter increment in my code. but still i have same problem.
when i have run the below query inside the loop. i found that @@RowCount is always 1.

SELECT InfID,@ROWCOUNT FROM @TEMPTABLE WHERE @@ROWCOUNT = @COUNTER;

Can u tell me how to iterate each row of temptable using while loop or for loop in sql?

Answer 1

WHERE @@ROWCOUNT = @COUNTER is incorrect.

@@ROWCOUNT returns the number of rows affected by the previous statement.

It will only evaluate to true once. (When @COUNTER = 1) so the rest of the time no assignment is made to @INFID from the SELECT operation.

What are you trying to do? My best guess is that you need to add an IDENTITY column to your table and reference that instead of @@ROWCOUNT or use a cursor.

But if you explain your end goal we may be able to tell you a set based way of achieving whatever your goal is without RBAR processing.