Maximum stored procedure, function, trigger, or view nesting level exceeded (limit 32)

Question

I am creating a store procedure but while executing the procedure i am getting the particular error.

Msg 217, Level 16, State 1, Procedure SendMail_Renewapp,

Answer 1

Remove the BEGIN and END for your IF statement

example

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN

    IF @variable
    --NO BEGIN
       --Do this
    --NO END
END

Answer 2

Ok, So this one is pretty old, so I figured I would provide the correct answer. You should add SET NOCOUNT ON at the top of the stored procedure and SET NOCOUNT OFF before you attempt to return a result (your final select).

Without this statement, your execution will treat every select statement as a result to output. When an external ADO or ADO.NET attempts to call the stored procedure and get a result, you will get the "Maximum stored procedure, function, trigger, or view nesting level exceeded (limit 32)" message. Its the select statement for your cursor that is blowing things up.

reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/set-nocount-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

Answer 3

ALTER your database for RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS.

If nested triggers are allowed and a trigger in the chain starts an infinite loop, the nesting level is exceeded and the trigger terminates. That time you do get this error. so simply rune this query.

USE yourdatabase 
 GO
    -- Turn recursive triggers OFF in the database. 
      ALTER DATABASE yourdatabase    
      SET RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS OFF 
GO

Hope your problem will resolve.

Answer 4

Use

RETURN

at the end of the procedure

Answer 5

Check trigger nesting level right at the beginning of the trigger by using TRIGGER_NESTLEVEL function and stop the trigger to perform action if the trigger level is greater than 1.

 IF TRIGGER_NESTLEVEL() > 1
     RETURN

The error is occurring due to the nesting level exceeding its limit, because we all know that trigger continuously fires and its difficult to control that behavior of the trigger. The function TRIGGER_NESTLEVEL returns the nesting level and we can stop the nesting level to increase.

Answer 6

The procedure is created with an EXEC of itself inside it. Therefore, a GO must be placed before the EXEC so the procedure will be Created/Altered before getting executed. Thus, avoiding the RECURSION.