SQL Call Stored Procedure for each Row without using a cursor
I'd use the accepted answer, but another possibility is to use a table variable to hold a numbered set of values (in this case just the ID field of a table) and loop through those by Row Number with a JOIN to the table to retrieve whatever you need for the action within the loop.
DECLARE @RowCnt int; SET @RowCnt = 0 -- Loop Counter
-- Use a table variable to hold numbered rows containg MyTable's ID values
DECLARE @tblLoop TABLE (RowNum int IDENTITY (1, 1) Primary key NOT NULL,
ID INT )
INSERT INTO @tblLoop (ID) SELECT ID FROM MyTable
-- Vars to use within the loop
DECLARE @Code NVarChar(10); DECLARE @Name NVarChar(100);
WHILE @RowCnt < (SELECT COUNT(RowNum) FROM @tblLoop)
BEGIN
SET @RowCnt = @RowCnt + 1
-- Do what you want here with the data stored in tblLoop for the given RowNum
SELECT @Code=Code, @Name=LongName
FROM MyTable INNER JOIN @tblLoop tL on MyTable.ID=tL.ID
WHERE tl.RowNum=@RowCnt
PRINT Convert(NVarChar(10),@RowCnt) +' '+ @Code +' '+ @Name
END
DECLARE @SQL varchar(max)=''
-- MyTable has fields fld1 & fld2
Select @SQL = @SQL + 'exec myproc ' + convert(varchar(10),fld1) + ','
+ convert(varchar(10),fld2) + ';'
From MyTable
EXEC (@SQL)
Ok, so I would never put such code into production, but it does satisfy your requirements.
You could do something like this: order your table by e.g. CustomerID (using the AdventureWorks Sales.Customer
sample table), and iterate over those customers using a WHILE loop:
-- define the last customer ID handled
DECLARE @LastCustomerID INT
SET @LastCustomerID = 0
-- define the customer ID to be handled now
DECLARE @CustomerIDToHandle INT
-- select the next customer to handle
SELECT TOP 1 @CustomerIDToHandle = CustomerID
FROM Sales.Customer
WHERE CustomerID > @LastCustomerID
ORDER BY CustomerID
-- as long as we have customers......
WHILE @CustomerIDToHandle IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
-- call your sproc
-- set the last customer handled to the one we just handled
SET @LastCustomerID = @CustomerIDToHandle
SET @CustomerIDToHandle = NULL
-- select the next customer to handle
SELECT TOP 1 @CustomerIDToHandle = CustomerID
FROM Sales.Customer
WHERE CustomerID > @LastCustomerID
ORDER BY CustomerID
END
That should work with any table as long as you can define some kind of an ORDER BY
on some column.
Generally speaking I always look for a set based approach (sometimes at the expense of changing the schema).
However, this snippet does have its place..
-- Declare & init (2008 syntax)
DECLARE @CustomerID INT = 0
-- Iterate over all customers
WHILE (1 = 1)
BEGIN
-- Get next customerId
SELECT TOP 1 @CustomerID = CustomerID
FROM Sales.Customer
WHERE CustomerID > @CustomerId
ORDER BY CustomerID
-- Exit loop if no more customers
IF @@ROWCOUNT = 0 BREAK;
-- call your sproc
EXEC dbo.YOURSPROC @CustomerId
END