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Help: Ways of persisting the resultset from SP?

  • November 5, 2003 at 7:04 pm

    #176935

    is there anyway to insert the results from a stored procedure into a table/temptable

    without first knowing what's the columns returned.

    i know it works by first creating a temptable, but this only works if i know the columns.

    I am looking at something like

    Select (exec sp) into #temptable.

    i am actually trying to call a system stored procedure and i want to keep the results in a table from a stored procedure itself.

    Any help will be greatly appreciated

  • November 6, 2003 at 3:54 am

    #481026

    you could use a select into ...

    SELECT *

    INTO #WrkTable

    FROM OPENROWSET('SQLOLEDB','server';'user';'pass','master..sp_who')

    This would fail with sp's that return more than 1 result set as output

  • November 6, 2003 at 4:00 am

    #481027

    quote:

    This would fail with sp's that return more than 1 result set as output

    And those that use temp tables, e.g. sp_helpdb

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    Anon.

  • November 6, 2003 at 4:14 am

    #481030

    Sorry ,

    yes that is correct , you should probably use "SET FMTONLY OFF EXEC master..sp_who" , this would avoid the temp table problem

  • November 18, 2003 at 5:39 pm

    #482530

    if it's not too much i would like ur help again, the openrowset or openquery doesn't work properly on this system sp

    sp_sproc_columns, it keeps giving me error

    Syntax error converting the nvarchar value '%' to a column of data type int.

    PLS help me thanks!

  • November 18, 2003 at 11:55 pm

    #482543

    try this

    SELECT *

    INTO #WrkTable

    FROM OPENROWSET('SQLOLEDB','server';'user';'pass','SET FMTONLY OFF EXEC master..sp_sproc_columns')

  • November 19, 2003 at 12:35 am

    #482551

    hi GCN, thanks for ur help, but this is not what i wanted, i want the recordset not the columns only

  • November 19, 2003 at 12:58 am

    #482555

    Hi , this should return the recordset not just columns

  • November 19, 2003 at 6:53 am

    #482622

    Try 

    

    -- Generic example ...

    If Object_ID('TempDB..#Temp') Is Not NULL Drop Table #Temp

    

    select * Into #Temp from OpenRowset('SQLOLEDB', 

    	'Server=(local);Trusted_Connection=yes', 

    	'Exec Master.dbo.sp_help ')

    

    Select * from #Temp

    

    If Object_ID('TempDB..#Temp') Is Not NULL Drop Table #Temp

    This returns a record set. Some issues though:

    If SP deals with #Temp tables, results will not be returned.

    Also may try 'SET FMTONLY OFF EXEC theSP'.

    SP should have SET NOCOUNT ON, and no PRINTs ect. for best results.



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  • November 19, 2003 at 3:33 pm

    #482760

    You can select the results of the procedure into a global temp table.

    create proc #temp as

    select *

    into ##so

    from sysobjects

    go

    I can then

    exec #temp

    select * from ##so

    drop table ##so

    Brian

  • November 19, 2003 at 5:34 pm

    #482773

    this query doesn't work if i pass in the parameters(example a sp name).. any ideas? it just return no recordsets..

    but if i were to run just EXEC master..sp_sproc_columns spname

    it will return a recordset

    SELECT *

    INTO #WrkTable

    FROM OPENROWSET('SQLOLEDB','server';'user';'pass','SET FMTONLY OFF EXEC master..sp_sproc_columns spname')

  • November 19, 2003 at 11:49 pm

    #482787

    try replacing <master> with whatever database that has sp_name...

    'SET FMTONLY OFF EXEC MyDatabase..sp_sproc_columns spname'

  • November 20, 2003 at 1:58 am

    #482798

    it works!!! thanks..

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