Has anyone, with any driver whatsoever, managed to retrieve output
parameters from a SQL Server stored procedure? I've just been rather
embarrassed to find out it's not as easy as it might seem, and people
are saying bad things about Python as a result :-(
mx.ODBC, which I regard as a highly-capable module, does not support the
callproc() API, and suggests use of the ODBC call format. It has caveats
in (some of) the documentation implying that output parameters cannot be
handled due to their indeterminate memory requirements, however.
The adodbapi module does have a stored procedure call in its unit tests,
and manages to pass that test, but when I call my own stored procedure
(which retrieves columns into the output parameters rather than using
SET to establish their values) I get back whatever value I supplied as
the output parameter rather than what the stored procedure is returning.
So, can anyone help me to fulfill what must be a very common database
requirement?
regards
Steve
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Steve Holden wrote: Has anyone, with any driver whatsoever, managed to retrieve output parameters from a SQL Server stored procedure? I've just been rather embarrassed to find out it's not as easy as it might seem, and people are saying bad things about Python as a result :-(
mx.ODBC, which I regard as a highly-capable module, does not support the callproc() API, and suggests use of the ODBC call format. It has caveats in (some of) the documentation implying that output parameters cannot be handled due to their indeterminate memory requirements, however.
The adodbapi module does have a stored procedure call in its unit tests, and manages to pass that test, but when I call my own stored procedure (which retrieves columns into the output parameters rather than using SET to establish their values) I get back whatever value I supplied as the output parameter rather than what the stored procedure is returning.
So, can anyone help me to fulfill what must be a very common database requirement?
regards Steve
Hmmm, following up, added another test to adodbapi to retrieve a value
from a table into an output parameter it works, so this puts the
suspicion on to the stored procedure. Since this was written by the
client I'll take a look at it later (when I'm back in the office) and
see what the problem might be.
happily-talking-away-to-myself-ly y'rs - steve
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Steve Holden wrote: Hmmm, following up, added another test to adodbapi to retrieve a value from a table into an output parameter it works, so this puts the suspicion on to the stored procedure. Since this was written by the client I'll take a look at it later (when I'm back in the office) and see what the problem might be.
happily-talking-away-to-myself-ly y'rs - steve
However, the stored procedure below appears to consistently return zero
for the link_id when called with:
columnist_id, url, title, description, link_id = \
curs.callproc(" sp_InsertArticl e",
(columnist_id, url, title, description, 0))
so maybe there really *is* something wrong. Or, hopefully, I'm just
making a simple mistake in the calls? Whatever value is used as the
fifth (output) parameter seems to get returned, despite the apparent
change in the stored procedure.
Create PROCEDURE dbo.sp_InsertAr ticle
(
@columnist_id int,
@url varchar(255),
@title varchar(99),
@description text,
@link_id int OUTPUT
)
AS
BEGIN
INSERT INTO link (columnist_id,u rl,title,descri ption)
VALUES (@columnist_id, @url,@title,@de scription)
SELECT @link_id = @@IDENTITY
END
GO
not-quite-so-happi-ly y'rs - steve
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In article <HHWmd.10924$nj .1324@lakeread0 1>,
Steve Holden <st***@holdenwe b.com> wrote: Has anyone, with any driver whatsoever, managed to retrieve output parameters from a SQL Server stored procedure? I've just been rather embarrassed to find out it's not as easy as it might seem, and people are saying bad things about Python as a result :-(
mx.ODBC, which I regard as a highly-capable module, does not support the callproc() API, and suggests use of the ODBC call format. It has caveats in (some of) the documentation implying that output parameters cannot be handled due to their indeterminate memory requirements, however.
Keep in mind that it's been several years since I used Python with SQL
Server and about all I remember is that we used stored procedures
heavily with no problems. I have no clue whether we tried using stored
procedures with output parameters, but I wonder why you can't just use a
SELECT to call the stored procedure and return the values. Or at least
right another stored proc that does something roughly similar.
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In article <cn**********@p anix1.panix.com >, Aahz <aa**@pythoncra ft.com> wrote: Keep in mind that it's been several years since I used Python with SQL Server and about all I remember is that we used stored procedures heavily with no problems. I have no clue whether we tried using stored procedures with output parameters, but I wonder why you can't just use a SELECT to call the stored procedure and return the values. Or at least right another stored proc that does something roughly similar.
s/right/write/, but you knew that.
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Steve Holden <st***@holdenwe b.com> wrote in message news:<oSYmd.109 31$nj.6308@lake read01>... Steve Holden wrote:
Hmmm, following up, added another test to adodbapi to retrieve a value from a table into an output parameter it works, so this puts the suspicion on to the stored procedure. Since this was written by the client I'll take a look at it later (when I'm back in the office) and see what the problem might be.
happily-talking-away-to-myself-ly y'rs - steve
However, the stored procedure below appears to consistently return zero for the link_id when called with:
columnist_id, url, title, description, link_id = \ curs.callproc(" sp_InsertArticl e", (columnist_id, url, title, description, 0))
so maybe there really *is* something wrong. Or, hopefully, I'm just making a simple mistake in the calls? Whatever value is used as the fifth (output) parameter seems to get returned, despite the apparent change in the stored procedure.
Create PROCEDURE dbo.sp_InsertAr ticle ( @columnist_id int, @url varchar(255), @title varchar(99), @description text, @link_id int OUTPUT ) AS BEGIN INSERT INTO link (columnist_id,u rl,title,descri ption) VALUES (@columnist_id, @url,@title,@de scription)
SELECT @link_id = @@IDENTITY END
GO
I had a similar problem doing this once before that I think was
related to the connection string. Changing to use the SQLOLEDB
provider solved it. I've just tested the below script here and got
the expected results:
Stored procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE TestSP
@param INTEGER OUTPUT
AS
BEGIN
select @param = 10
END
Python test:
import adodbapi
server='localho st'
dbname='brian'
user='sa'
password=''
db=adodbapi.con nect('Provider= SQLOLEDB.1;Data Source=%s;Initi al
Catalog=%s;User ID=%s;Password= %s;'%(server, dbname,user,pas sword))
cur = db.cursor()
print cur.callproc('T estSP',(999,))
[10]
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