Question

I have the following view run to an external mssql database. I am connecting to the same database for some full stored procedures with input parameters and these work fine but the view doesnt work and gives the error

Warning: mssql_execute() [function.mssql-execute]: message: The request for procedure 'usv_Extended_Confirmation' failed because 'usv_Extended_Confirmation' is a view object. (severity 18) in 

Warning: mssql_execute() [function.mssql-execute]: General SQL Server error: Check messages from the SQL Server (severity 18) in 

Warning: mssql_execute() [function.mssql-execute]: stored procedure execution failed in

Warning: mssql_fetch_assoc() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in

The script calling the view is as follows

//run msdb connected view procedure
function runView($procedure){
    global $msdb;

    //initiate function
    $proc = mssql_init('usv_Extended_Confirmation', $msdb); 

    //Execute Procedure 
    $result = mssql_execute($proc); 

    while ($row = mssql_fetch_assoc($result)){
        $results[] = $row;    
        }
    $return = $results;

    //Free Memory 
    mssql_free_statement($proc); 

    return $return;
}

Answer 1

You don’t execute a view. A view is like table or a query – you Select from it.

$query = mssql_query('SELECT * FROM usv_Extended_Confirmation');
while ($row = mssql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
    ....