Question

I know I missasked the question, and that’s probably the reason I can’t find the solution myself:

How do I take a result in a stored procedure and and change the data such as

    if column1 = AAA then 
      column1=Hello
    else if column1 = BBB then 
     column1 = goodbye

and have the data return with the new values?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you can get to the content of the stored procedure, you should change it to a table-valued function instead – if possible, an inline one (because that has a much higher chance of being able to be optimised).

This will let you query the results and change it as needed:

SELECT CASE column1 
         WHEN 'AAA' THEN 'Hello' 
         WHEN 'BBB' THEN 'goodbye' 
       END as NewColumn,
  ,*
FROM dbo.yourNewFunction() as t;

If you can’t do this, and are very much stuck with a stored procedure, you could wrap it up in OPENROWSET:

SELECT CASE column1 
         WHEN 'AAA' THEN 'Hello' 
         WHEN 'BBB' THEN 'goodbye' 
       END as NewColumn,
  , *
FROM OPENROWSET('SQLNCLI','Server=.;Trusted_Connection=Yes;','EXEC dbo.YourProc') as t;

This is a way to treat the output of a procedure as a table expression, but if you can do it without the procedure, that’s better still.