OpenEdge Data Management: DataServer for Microsoft SQL Server

Run Stored-Proc statement execution with the
LOAD-RESULT-INTO phrase
Run Stored-Procedure details
You can also execute a stored procedure implementation to obtain result sets and load the results
into temp-tables. You must define result set(s) target as part of the RUN STORED-PROC statement.
You do not explicitly close a STORED-PROC defined this way as you do with buffer methods of
retrieving result sets; the LOAD-RESULT-INTO function achieves this goal implicitly.
This is the syntax for the RUN STORED–PROC statement implementation when loading result sets
to temp-tables:
Syntax
RUN STORED-PROC procedure-name
[[LOAD-RESULT-INTO [ = PROC-STATUS]]
[NO-ERROR]
[([INPUT|OUTPUT|INPUT OUTPUT] [PARAM parameter-name =]expression, ...
[INPUT|OUTPUT|INPUT OUTPUT] [PARAM parameter-name =]expression)]
The RUN STORED-PROC statement sets up the execution of the stored-procedure, retrieves the
result set(s), and loads it into the temp-table(s) provided you use the LOAD-RESULT-INTO
function. The CLOSE STORED-PROC statement is automatically applied when the result set(s) is
loaded into temp-tables because using temp-tables must consume all result sets of the
procedure.
Run Stored-Proc statement execution using the
send-sql-statement option
ABL also allows you to use stored-procedure syntax to send SQL statements and their native
language extensions directly to a data source. The DataServer uses the RUN STORED–PROCEDURE
statement with the send–sql–statement option to pass SQL statements to the data source. This
option gives you access to Transact–SQL, providing you access to business logic for MS SQL
Server. For example, you can issue Data Definition Language (DDL) statements from within
OpenEdge procedures. You can send multiple SQL statements by concatenating them and
passing the string as a single parameter to the send–sql–statement option.
Like the option to define a RUN STORED-PROC statement either with or without the
LOAD-RESULT-INTO options, you can define a send-sql-statement with or without the
LOAD-RESULT-INTO option. The following section presents and briefly describes a sample use of
each technique.
Without the Load-Result-Into option
You use the RUN STORED–PROC statement with the send–sql–statement option and pass the
Transact-SQL statements as a parameter. The syntax of the statement must be valid
Transact-SQL syntax. Example 3–1 shows how this code passes a SELECT statement as a
parameter.
Note: The SQL statement(s) passed to the send-sql-statement stored procedure is not limited
to the 32,000 bytes of a OpenEdge CHARACTER field. To pass SQL of greater size, store
the SQL text in a LONGCHAR field and pass that as a parameter to the send-sql-statement
stored procedure.
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