How can I Pass an array into a Stored Procedure from Visual Basic?

Hi
How can I Pass an array into a MS SQL Server Stored Procedure from Visual
Basic?
Thanks
IanConvert it into a string
"Ian" <ian@.NoWhere.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> How can I Pass an array into a MS SQL Server Stored Procedure from Visual
> Basic?
> Thanks
> Ian
>|||Define what you mean by an array and what you want to do with it in the
stored procedure for better answers.
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"Ian" <ian@.NoWhere.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> How can I Pass an array into a MS SQL Server Stored Procedure from Visual
> Basic?
> Thanks
> Ian
>|||There are no array type in t-SQL. You will have to use other workarounds
like changing your VB array to a delimited string & pass as a single
parameter to the procedure, or build an XML string etc. As far as dealing
with such parameters & parsing them within a stored procedure, you can get
some ideas from: http://www.sommarskog.se/arrays-in-sql.html
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Anith|||CREATE Procedure sp_test_array
@.IDList Varchar(8000)
AS
-- Notes: @.IDList must be a comma delimited list of id's
SET NOCOUNT ON
DECLARE @.Pos1 Int, @.Pos2 Int, @.id Int
-- Input value - bracket with commas
SET @.IDList = ',' + @.IDList + ','
SET @.Pos1 = 1
WHILE @.Pos1 < Len(@.IDList)
BEGIN
SET @.Pos2 = Charindex(',' , @.IDList , @.Pos1 + 1)
SET @.id = Convert(Int, Substring(@.IDList, @.Pos1 + 1, @.Pos2 - @.Pos1 - 1))
PRINT @.id
SET @.Pos1 = @.Pos2
END