Question

Lets say I have a stored proc call MyStoredProc which recieved an int (@MyParam INT) datatype.

Let’s say I have an int declared in a script like this…

DECLARE @MyVar INT ;
SET @MyVar = 101 ;

I just wrote a long sql script where I do a LOT of this…

EXEC MyStoredProc @MyVar + 1  ;

I am shocked that this is causing a syntax error warning.

I can do this…

EXEC MyStoredProc @MyVar ;

and I can do this…

EXEC MyStoredProc 101 ;

but I can’t do this…

EXEC MyStoredProc @MyVar + 1  ;

This is going to make my script a LOT harder to write unless I am missing something. This is for SQL 2005.

Answer 1

The only option I see is to declare a temp variable:

declare @var1_increment = @var1 + 1
exec stored_proc @var1_increment

And create a Connect and User Voice topics proposing to extend T-SQL syntax.