Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/25/07 21:23

ArunDhaJ (arundhaj@gmail.com) writes:
> Is it possible to pass a table as a parameter to a funtion.

It should be in SQL 2008, which currently is in beta. The functionality
is available in the current CTP, but I have not played with it, so I
can't say for sure that it works with functions.

> my problem is: i have to access a temporary table created in an SP in
> a function
>
>
> ALTER PROCEDURE MySP
> BEGIN
> ....
> DECLARE @TmpTable TABLE(...)
> ....
> TempFunction(@TmpTable)
> ....
> END

You probably need to rewrite the function as a procedure. See here for
some tips of passing data between stored procedures in current SQL versions.
http://www.sommarskog.se/share_data.html

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