Help! Limitations On Varchar Size And Not Being Able To Use TEXT In Stored Procedure
Nov 4, 1999
I am stuck! and need help!
I have a problem I can't seem to find the solution with this aweful limitations on VARCHAR fields of 255.
Within a stored procedure called Store_Check, I need to dynamically build a string (@string) using VARCHAR(255) since the text datatype can't be used in a stored procedure.
So,this string is built according to whether the Store ID is NOT NULL. So if the StoreID is not null, I start building this string 'Exec Update_Store_Address @StoreID1, @address2'. There are 20 StoreID's passed into Store_Check. IF all 20 StoreID's are not NULL, the executed String greatly exceeds 255 because the string winds up looking like this
'Exec Update_Store_Address @StoreID1, @address1 Exec Update_Store_Address @StoreID2, @address2 Exec Update_Store_Address @StoreID3, @address3 Exec Update_Store_Address @StoreID4, @address4 Exec Update_Store_Address @StoreID5, @address5 Exec Update_Store_Address @StoreID6, @address6 etc. etc.'
I am not executing this string within the StoredCheck procedure. It needs to be passed as ONE string to a VB program and it gets executed by the VB program. Even if I create 4 local variables and concatenate them, it stops at the 255th character.
Also, a local varialbe of type TEXT cannot be declared within stored procedure.
What can I do? I am stuck!
Angel
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Aug 7, 2015
Impact on performance of changing Text column size.
However, many of them were regarding older releases of SQL Server.
Does the architecture in 2012, 2014 releases make this less of an issue ?
In other words, why bother going from Varchar(1000) to Varchar(50) ?
I'm just thinking maybe there is column compression automatically now.
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Here is the stored procedure.
Code Block
CREATE PROCEDURE insertDInfo
(@OrderDoc ntext)
AS
DECLARE
@hDoc int
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument
@hDoc output,
@OrderDoc
INSERT INTO [DInfo]
SELECT *
from OPENXML (@hDoc,'Data/Despatch',3)
with
(
[ID_Key] varchar(60) '@ID_Key',
DNumber varchar(50) '@DNumber',
PartNumber varchar (50) '@PartNumber',
Quantity real '@Quantity',
OrderNumber varchar (50) '@OrderNumber',
)
ORDER BY
DNumber
EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @hDoc
GO
Any suggestions???
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Thanks for your help.
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Code Snippet
CREATE PROCEDURE proc_SomeSmartName @SomeVariable VARCHAR AS
BEGIN SELECT COUNT(ID) AS SomeLabel, SomeField
FROM SomeTable
GROUP BY SomeField
HAVING SomeField = @SomeVariable
END
Now my problem: It doesn't seem to work if I give the @SomeParameter a string to work with, neither via SqlCommandObject nor directly in the Management Studio. The following returns zero rows:
Code Snippet
DECLARE @return_value int
EXEC @return_value = [dbo].[proc_SomeSmartName]
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SELECT 'Return Value' = @return_value
Funny enough, when I have the following query, it works perfectly:
Code Snippet
SELECT COUNT(ID) AS SomeLabel, SomeField
FROM SomeTable
GROUP BY SomeField
HAVING SomeField = 'MyText'
Returning one row as it should. SomeField is an NVarChar field, but I tried casting it to VarChar without any benefit, and I also supplied the parameter as NVarChar to test, both without further success. And 'MyText' does exist in the database, in both cases when I run the stored procedure and when I run the SQL statement directly.
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Code Snippet
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetProductsByCategoryId]
@Category VARCHAR(255),
@Range INT,
@PageIndex INT,
@NumRows INT,
@CategoryName nvarchar(255) OUTPUT,
@CategoryProductCount INT OUTPUT
AS
BEGIN
/*
Get product count
*/
SELECT @CategoryProductCount=(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Products LEFT JOIN tblVar on Products.ProductID = tblVar.prodidvar WHERE Products.Category=@Category AND Products.Range=@Range)
/*set row variables*/
Declare @startRowIndex INT;
set @startRowIndex =(@PageIndex * @NumRows) + 1;
/* get full list of products */
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AND Category = @Category
)
/*get only needed rows */
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FROM ProductEntries
WHERE Row Between
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END
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AND Category = @ Category
in the query to make the ProductEntries
If I take this query and run it in an SQL pane I need to enclose the argument for @Category in single quotes.
If I try to do this in the procedure it simply searchs for @Category as a string rather than the value of @Category.
The query returns and displays results with no problems without this line, and also if it is returning a result set that has no values in tblVar to join to.
Also if I run the query on just the Products table removing the left join it will return results with no problems.
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And I apologise if it is something simple but asp and SQL Server is not my usual coding platform.
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SQL file
======================
DECLARE @S AS VARCHAR(1000)
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======================
Stored Procedure
======================
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AS
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Code:
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GO
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SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
[Code] ....
Why when I run
Code:
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GO
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