Prompting for input from user using SQL Server 2000...

I know how to do it in Oracle.
ACCEPT <<variable>> PROMPT 'ENTER VARIABLE: '
How do you do it in SQL Server 2000?SQL Server cannot do this, as SQL Server executes entirely at the server
side. (I take it that you don't want to prompt to pop up on the server
machine?)
So, this has to be done my the client application. None of the tools that
comes with SQL Server has that feature, as they aren't designed to be
end-user tools not development packages.
--
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
"Jonathan McKinney" <jonmckin@.nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I know how to do it in Oracle.
> ACCEPT <<variable>> PROMPT 'ENTER VARIABLE: '
> How do you do it in SQL Server 2000?
>|||Hi,
You do not have that kind of facility in SQL Server.
Thanks
Hari
MCDBA
"Jonathan McKinney" <jonmckin@.nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I know how to do it in Oracle.
> ACCEPT <<variable>> PROMPT 'ENTER VARIABLE: '
> How do you do it in SQL Server 2000?
>|||I want to create a procedure the I can run from Query Analyzer that prompts
the user for input and supplies it to the procedure.
Not a big deal, but the client can do it in Oracle and wonders why SQL
can't.
"Tibor Karaszi" <tibor_please.no.email_karaszi@.hotmail.nomail.com> wrote in
message news:OOR%23rXIBEHA.2628@.TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> SQL Server cannot do this, as SQL Server executes entirely at the server
> side. (I take it that you don't want to prompt to pop up on the server
> machine?)
> So, this has to be done my the client application. None of the tools that
> comes with SQL Server has that feature, as they aren't designed to be
> end-user tools not development packages.
> --
> Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
> http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
>
> "Jonathan McKinney" <jonmckin@.nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:TEL2c.137059$%72.48338@.twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> > I know how to do it in Oracle.
> >
> > ACCEPT <<variable>> PROMPT 'ENTER VARIABLE: '
> >
> > How do you do it in SQL Server 2000?
> >
> >
>|||Hi,
In Query analyzer, Object browser window , right click above the procedure
name and select the debug option. This will ask you to enter the
input parameters of the procedure.
(It may not be same as you required, but allows you to take parameter
values.)
Thanks
Hari
MCDBA
"Jonathan McKinney" <jonmckin@.nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
news:GaM2c.137196$%72.44266@.twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> I want to create a procedure the I can run from Query Analyzer that
prompts
> the user for input and supplies it to the procedure.
> Not a big deal, but the client can do it in Oracle and wonders why SQL
> can't.
> "Tibor Karaszi" <tibor_please.no.email_karaszi@.hotmail.nomail.com> wrote
in
> message news:OOR%23rXIBEHA.2628@.TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > SQL Server cannot do this, as SQL Server executes entirely at the server
> > side. (I take it that you don't want to prompt to pop up on the server
> > machine?)
> > So, this has to be done my the client application. None of the tools
that
> > comes with SQL Server has that feature, as they aren't designed to be
> > end-user tools not development packages.
> >
> > --
> > Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
> > http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
> >
> >
> > "Jonathan McKinney" <jonmckin@.nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:TEL2c.137059$%72.48338@.twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> > > I know how to do it in Oracle.
> > >
> > > ACCEPT <<variable>> PROMPT 'ENTER VARIABLE: '
> > >
> > > How do you do it in SQL Server 2000?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>