Stored Procedure Variables

Question

I am afraid my terminology has hindered me from finding the results I am looking for on the internet. Anyhow, I have a fairly complex stored procedure that I need to pass sever

Answer 1

Yes you want to pass in a table valued parameter to your stored proc. Give this article a read:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/the-enterprise-cloud/passing-table-valued-parameters-in-sql-server-2008/

Basically you will define the type:

CREATE TYPE myType AS TABLE
(                     
       [myId] int NULL
)      

Then create a stored proc that accepts that type:

CREATE PROCEDURE myProc
(
      @TableVariable myType READONLY
)
AS
BEGIN
...