Question

I have this current SP:

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetHighestDrop]
  @val1 AS FLOAT ,
  @val2 AS FLOAT ,
  @val3 AS FLOAT 
AS
BEGIN
select case when @val1 < @val2 then
               case when @val1 < @val3 then @val1
               else @val3
               end
        when @val2 < @val3 then @val2
               else @val3
    end
END

I am calling it with this syntax:

SELECT
GetHighestDrop @val1=((clmnA/clmnB)-1)*100,@val2=2,@val3=3
FROM dbo.tstTable

clmnA and clmbB contain numbers, if I run them seperately, like:

SELECT ((clmnA/clmnB)-1)*100 FROM dbo.tstTable

I get a result, which is a float, but when I run it through GetHighestDrop, it fails.

Any idea why?

Answer 1

You can only call a stored procedure with exec. There is no way to run a stored procedure inside a select.

Consider converting your procedure to a scalar user-defined function.

Example function use (don’t forget the schema name, usually “dbo”):

select  dbo.GetHighestDrop( ((clmnA/clmnB)-1)*100, 2, 3) as Col1
from    dbo.tstTable