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Asked: 2026-05-11T05:52:10+00:00

I need to use a cursor to call a stored procedure that has 2

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I need to use a cursor to call a stored procedure that has 2 parameters that i need to pass into from Customers table.

Here is what I mean;

My goal is to pass all the CustomerID and CustomerName from Customers table into my stored procedure called AddCustomers which has 2 parameters of CustomerID and CustomerName. ie: AddCustomer [CustomerID],[CustomerName] [side note: this AddCustomer stored procedure does some filtering things that i need for my apps]

So the end result of using this CURSOR with an stored procedure is to DUMP/PASS all of customerID and CustomerName from Customers table into AddCustomer stored procedure.

I have used sp_executesql, but not successfully.

Here is what i have tried but not working.

Declare @CustomerID int Declare @CustomerName varchar(100)  Declare cur CURSOR READ_ONLY FOR SELECT CustomerID, CustomerName from Customers  OPEN cur  FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @CustomerID, @CustomerName  WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN    EXEC AddCustomer @CustomerID, @CustomerName     FETCH NEXT FROM cur    INTO @CustomerID, @CustomerName END  CLOSE cur DEALLOCATE cur

I am new to the use of cursors so I am not sure why this isn’t working. If you can provide any clues or links, I’d would appreciate it.

Update:

OK, if Cursor CANNOT loop thru stored procedure, THEN can anyone provide a solution or hints to my problem, which is to PASS all CustomerID and CustomerName from Customers table into my AddCustomer stored procedure so that i can do some filtering stuff on each of the CustomerID and CustomerName that i pass into AddCustomer Stored procedure.

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  1. Sam,

    There are times when using a stored procedure to do a task like this is perfectly appropriate. Le Dorfier has certainly given me lots of good advice but I have to disagree with him on this one. Especially if this is a one-time processing of your records to achieve some form of transformation, then you are really close to your solution as I don’t see any obvious flaws in your code. BTW, I’ve taken the same approach on more than one occasion and it has worked very well.

    So…post the stored procedure as well as we’ll see if that doesn’t help. Also, what specific error are you seeing?

    UPDATE: Wait, are you just running this in the SQL Window? I usually package this stuff up in another stored procedure (often just a temporary one) and then run it. Of course, it may also be that you just need to execute this code – not using EXEC but just using the Execute button…it is hard to tell based on your description.

    UPDATE 2: You say above that the error is something about the table. Are you sure that the data types that you have defined are correct? Could the error be a mismatch between the data pulled from the table and the type of the var into which you are placing it?

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