Can I loop through a table variable in T-SQL?

Question

Is there anyway to loop through a table variable in T-SQL?

DECLARE @table1 TABLE ( col1 int )  
INSERT into @table1 SELECT col1 FROM table2

Answer 1

Following Stored Procedure loop through the Table Variable and Prints it in Ascending ORDER. This example is using WHILE LOOP.

CREATE PROCEDURE PrintSequenceSeries 
    -- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here
    @ComaSeperatedSequenceSeries nVarchar(MAX)  
AS
BEGIN
    -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
    -- interfering with SELECT statements.
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    DECLARE @SERIES_COUNT AS INTEGER
    SELECT @SERIES_COUNT = COUNT(*) FROM PARSE_COMMA_DELIMITED_INTEGER(@ComaSeperatedSequenceSeries, ',')  --- ORDER BY ITEM DESC

    DECLARE @CURR_COUNT AS INTEGER
    SET @CURR_COUNT = 1

    DECLARE @SQL AS NVARCHAR(MAX)

    WHILE @CURR_COUNT <= @SERIES_COUNT
    BEGIN
        SET @SQL = 'SELECT TOP 1 T.* FROM ' + 
            '(SELECT TOP ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), @CURR_COUNT) + ' * FROM PARSE_COMMA_DELIMITED_INTEGER( ''' + @ComaSeperatedSequenceSeries + ''' , '','') ORDER BY ITEM ASC) AS T ' +
            'ORDER BY T.ITEM DESC '
        PRINT @SQL 
        EXEC SP_EXECUTESQL @SQL 
        SET @CURR_COUNT = @CURR_COUNT + 1
    END;

Following Statement Executes the Stored Procedure:

EXEC  PrintSequenceSeries '11,2,33,14,5,60,17,98,9,10'

The result displayed in SQL Query window is shown below:

The function PARSE_COMMA_DELIMITED_INTEGER() that returns TABLE variable is as shown below :

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[parse_comma_delimited_integer]
        (
            @LIST       VARCHAR(8000), 
            @DELIMITER  VARCHAR(10) = ',
            '
        )

        -- TABLE VARIABLE THAT WILL CONTAIN VALUES
        RETURNS @TABLEVALUES TABLE 
        (
            ITEM INT
        )
        AS
        BEGIN 
            DECLARE @ITEM VARCHAR(255)

            /* LOOP OVER THE COMMADELIMITED LIST */
            WHILE (DATALENGTH(@LIST) > 0)
                BEGIN 
                    IF CHARINDEX(@DELIMITER,@LIST) > 0
                        BEGIN
                            SELECT @ITEM = SUBSTRING(@LIST,1,(CHARINDEX(@DELIMITER, @LIST)-1))
                            SELECT @LIST =  SUBSTRING(@LIST,(CHARINDEX(@DELIMITER, @LIST) +
                            DATALENGTH(@DELIMITER)),DATALENGTH(@LIST))
                        END
                    ELSE
                        BEGIN
                            SELECT @ITEM = @LIST
                            SELECT @LIST = NULL
                        END

                    -- INSERT EACH ITEM INTO TEMP TABLE
                    INSERT @TABLEVALUES 
                    (
                        ITEM
                    )
                    SELECT ITEM = CONVERT(INT, @ITEM) 
                END
        RETURN
        END