Question

I want to create a stored procedure which takes integer values as a @top from me so that I can use it in my query, but it’s not allowing me to set value of top dynamically.

select top @top * from (select url,
count(1) as shared from tblshared
group by url, uniqid having
uniqid = @uniqid) as sha  order by
shared desc

I want to retrieve top n records from table so I want to pass the value of n in stored procedure and it will return me that number of top records.

Note: I don’t want to use exec.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could use SET ROWCOUNT:

SET ROWCOUNT @top
SELECT ...
SET ROWCOUNT 0