How can I pass an “array” of values to my stored procedure?

Question

I want to be able to pass an \"array\" of values to my stored procedure, instead of calling \"Add value\" procedure serially.

Can anyone suggest a way to do it? am I

Answer 1

I don't know about passing an actual array into those engines (I work with sqlserver) but here's an idea for passing a delimited string and parsing it in your sproc with this function.

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[Split]
(
    @ItemList NVARCHAR(4000), 
    @delimiter CHAR(1)
)
RETURNS @IDTable TABLE (Item VARCHAR(50))  
AS      

BEGIN    
    DECLARE @tempItemList NVARCHAR(4000)
    SET @tempItemList = @ItemList

    DECLARE @i INT    
    DECLARE @Item NVARCHAR(4000)

    SET @tempItemList = REPLACE (@tempItemList, ' ', '')
    SET @i = CHARINDEX(@delimiter, @tempItemList)

    WHILE (LEN(@tempItemList) > 0)
    BEGIN
        IF @i = 0
            SET @Item = @tempItemList
        ELSE
            SET @Item = LEFT(@tempItemList, @i - 1)
        INSERT INTO @IDTable(Item) VALUES(@Item)
        IF @i = 0
            SET @tempItemList = ''
        ELSE
            SET @tempItemList = RIGHT(@tempItemList, LEN(@tempItemList) - @i)
        SET @i = CHARINDEX(@delimiter, @tempItemList)
    END 
    RETURN
END