Question

I’m writing stored procedures in SQL Server 2008. I need to create two procedures which will use each other.

Procedure A executes B and B executes A.

So I suppose I have to declare headers of procedures firstly. I’ve searched over internet but I can’t find the answer how can I make it.

So, my question is: how can I declare header and body of stored procedure separately in SQL Server 2008?

Answer 1

You can’t separate them but you can create a SP that calls another SP that not yet exist.

When you run this

create procedure TheFirst as
begin
  exec TheSecond
end

and SP TheSecond does not exist you will get a message:

The module ‘TheFirst’ depends on the missing object ‘TheSecond’. The
module will still be created; however, it cannot run successfully
until the object exists.

Update:

To avoid the messages you can first create an empty proc and add the code later in the script.

create procedure ProcB as

go

create procedure ProcA as
begin
  exec ProcB
end

go

alter procedure ProcB as
begin
  exec ProcA
end