Expose SQL Meta Data via ASP

Hi,

Apologies if this is better posted in an ASP group, but here goes
anyway ...

Is it possible to work out what parameters a stored procedure expects,
using ASP?

I would like to take the name of a stored procedure, work out what
input parameters it has and build a form based on them in ASP.

Thanks,
MB.Tools (mbrocklehurst@.hotmail.com) writes:
> Apologies if this is better posted in an ASP group, but here goes
> anyway ...
> Is it possible to work out what parameters a stored procedure expects,
> using ASP?
> I would like to take the name of a stored procedure, work out what
> input parameters it has and build a form based on them in ASP.

You can use the .Refresh method for a command object. That will populate
a parameter collection for you.

Now, how you actually access that from ASP, you will have to ask someone
else. I don't know ASP.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp|||or you can run a query against INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARAMETERS

"Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@.sommarskog.se> wrote in message
news:Xns959DF15265D4AYazorman@.127.0.0.1...
> Tools (mbrocklehurst@.hotmail.com) writes:
> > Apologies if this is better posted in an ASP group, but here goes
> > anyway ...
> > Is it possible to work out what parameters a stored procedure expects,
> > using ASP?
> > I would like to take the name of a stored procedure, work out what
> > input parameters it has and build a form based on them in ASP.
> You can use the .Refresh method for a command object. That will populate
> a parameter collection for you.
> Now, how you actually access that from ASP, you will have to ask someone
> else. I don't know ASP.
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
> Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp