Thanks both Devanada and Peter, your replies helped me resolve it.
/Jon On 7/30/06, Peter Brawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
*>I'm trying to make stored procedures use parameters for limit and tables, I >guess this is either me using the wrong datatype or it's not possible. I'm >having the same issue with seting the table for the query: * SET @sql = CONCAT( 'select * from some_table limit ', some_limit ); PREPARE stmt FROM @sql etc. PB ----- Devananda wrote: Jon wrote: Hi list I'm trying to make stored procedures use parameters for limit and tables, I guess this is either me using the wrong datatype or it's not possible. I'm having the same issue with seting the table for the query: CREATE PROCEDURE sp_test1 (IN some_limit int) select * from some_table limit some_limit; and CREATE PROCEDURE sp_test2 (IN some_table table) select * from some_table; Both fail with "ERROR 1064 (42000)". Can someone please shed some light on this for me? Is this a problem with procedures not being able to do this or is it wrong datatypes or something completely different? Thanks in advance Jon It sounds like what you need is dynamic SQL in your stored procedures. Check out http://forge.mysql.com/snippets/view.php?id=13 for some good examples, more complex than what you're asking about, but they should shed light on what you need to do. Regards, Devananda No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/403 - Release Date: 7/28/2006
