T-SQL: Looping through an array of known values
What I do in this scenario is create a table variable to hold the Ids.
Declare @Ids Table (id integer primary Key not null)
Insert @Ids(id) values (4),(7),(12),(22),(19)
-- (or call another table valued function to generate this table)
Then loop based on the rows in this table
Declare @Id Integer
While exists (Select * From @Ids)
Begin
Select @Id = Min(id) from @Ids
exec p_MyInnerProcedure @Id
Delete from @Ids Where id = @Id
End
or...
Declare @Id Integer = 0 -- assuming all Ids are > 0
While exists (Select * From @Ids
where id > @Id)
Begin
Select @Id = Min(id)
from @Ids Where id > @Id
exec p_MyInnerProcedure @Id
End
Either of above approaches is much faster than a cursor (declared against regular User Table(s)). Table-valued variables have a bad rep because when used improperly, (for very wide tables with large number of rows) they are not performant. But if you are using them only to hold a key value or a 4 byte integer, with a index (as in this case) they are extremely fast.
declare @ids table(idx int identity(1,1), id int)
insert into @ids (id)
select 4 union
select 7 union
select 12 union
select 22 union
select 19
declare @i int
declare @cnt int
select @i = min(idx) - 1, @cnt = max(idx) from @ids
while @i < @cnt
begin
select @i = @i + 1
declare @id = select id from @ids where idx = @i
exec p_MyInnerProcedure @id
end