creating user defined parameters with input prompts

Hi,
i am trying to create a user defined function that return a table and it
prompts for two inputs
i have created the functions but how do i get the system to prompt me for
the inputs via a view ?
appreciate any advise
tks & rdgs
SQL Server cannot prompt a user for anything, as it runs on the server machines, as a service. You
need to have a client application do that.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
"maxzsim" <maxzsim@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> i am trying to create a user defined function that return a table and it
> prompts for two inputs
> i have created the functions but how do i get the system to prompt me for
> the inputs via a view ?
> appreciate any advise
> tks & rdgs
|||maxzsim,
Something like this?
CREATE FUNCTION myfunc
@.param1 <datatype>,
@.param2 <datatype>
RETURNS TABLE
AS
RETURN
(<your select statement>
where col1 = @.param1
and col2 = @.param2)
GO
Mark.
"maxzsim" wrote:

> Hi,
> i am trying to create a user defined function that return a table and it
> prompts for two inputs
> i have created the functions but how do i get the system to prompt me for
> the inputs via a view ?
> appreciate any advise
> tks & rdgs
|||Hi ,
does a view able to prompt the user for the parameters then , i can only
open a view as a query and where it allowed me to create parameters but it
seems like there's no way for me to save those changes at all
is there other way thru using a view ?
tks & rdgs
"Tibor Karaszi" wrote:

> SQL Server cannot prompt a user for anything, as it runs on the server machines, as a service. You
> need to have a client application do that.
> --
> Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
> http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
> http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
>
> "maxzsim" <maxzsim@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8AB52501-7876-4870-ADA1-6DC8BB93785E@.microsoft.com...
>
>
|||Hi Mark,
in this case it does not run unless i input some values directly however,
i wanted to be prompted to enter the 2 parameters
will a view/stored procedure be able to do that ?
rdgs
"Mark Allison" wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> maxzsim,
> Something like this?
> CREATE FUNCTION myfunc
> @.param1 <datatype>,
> @.param2 <datatype>
> RETURNS TABLE
> AS
> RETURN
> (<your select statement>
> where col1 = @.param1
> and col2 = @.param2)
> GO
> Mark.
> "maxzsim" wrote:
|||gain, prompting a user need to be done in your client applications. You cannot write the whole
application in SQL only, SQL is only a data retrieval and modification language. The interaction
with the user need to be done with a client application, written in VB. C#, C++ Delphi Access or
something like that.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
"maxzsim" <maxzsim@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4B01C6CF-392B-499F-8D9F-3824DF3AB2A2@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Hi ,
> does a view able to prompt the user for the parameters then , i can only
> open a view as a query and where it allowed me to create parameters but it
> seems like there's no way for me to save those changes at all
> is there other way thru using a view ?
> tks & rdgs
> "Tibor Karaszi" wrote:
|||tks Tibor for taking time out to explain to me
Cheers
"Tibor Karaszi" wrote:

> gain, prompting a user need to be done in your client applications. You cannot write the whole
> application in SQL only, SQL is only a data retrieval and modification language. The interaction
> with the user need to be done with a client application, written in VB. C#, C++ Delphi Access or
> something like that.
> --
> Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
> http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
> http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
>
> "maxzsim" <maxzsim@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>