If you want to see what parameters a stored procedure is using then you can accomplish this in a couple of different ways. You can use sys.parameters or INFORMATION_SCHEMA.parameters from within SQL Server itself, you can also SqlCommandBuilder from within ADO.NET
Let’s say you have a procedure name prTest in a database named Test2
CREATE PROCEDURE prTest
@id int,@SomeDate date,@Somechar CHAR(1) OUTPUT
AS
SELECT GETDATE(),@id ,@SomeDate ,@Somechar
Here is how you would do it with c# and ADO.NET
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string yourConnStr = "Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=Test2;Integrated Security=SSPI;";
using (SqlConnection sqlConn = new SqlConnection(yourConnStr))
using (SqlCommand sqlCmd = new SqlCommand("prTest", sqlConn))
{
sqlConn.Open();
sqlCmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
SqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters(sqlCmd);
Console.WriteLine(sqlCmd.Parameters.Count.ToString());
foreach (SqlParameter p in sqlCmd.Parameters) {
Console.WriteLine(p.ParameterName.ToString() + "t"
+ p.Direction.ToString() + "t" + p.DbType.ToString() );
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
Output
4 @RETURN_VALUE ReturnValue Int32 @id Input Int32 @SomeDate Input Date @Somechar Input AnsiStringFixedLength
As you can see, we get 4 parameters back not 3, this is because the return value is also included. sqlCmd.Parameters.Count returns 4 and when we loop over the sqlCmd.Parameters collection we are displaying the name, direction and data type of the parameter
If you want to do something similar from within SQL Server, you can use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.parameters view
SELECT parameter_name, ordinal_position,parameter_mode,data_type
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.parameters
WHERE SPECIFIC_NAME = 'prTest'
Here is the output
parameter_name |
---|
As you can see INFORMATION_SCHEMA.parameters does not return a row for the return value.
You can also use sys.parameters and join that with sys.types
SELECT s.name AS parameter_name,
parameter_id AS ordinal_position,
CASE is_output WHEN 0 THEN 'IN' ELSE 'INOUT' END Parameter_Mode,
t.name AS data_type
FROM sys.parameters s
JOIN sys.types t ON s.system_type_id = t.user_type_id
WHERE object_id = object_id('prTest')
Here is the same output as with INFORMATION_SCHEMA.parameters
parameter_name |
---|
I think INFORMATION_SCHEMA.parameters is a little easier to use, another benefit is that INFORMATION_SCHEMA.parameters also exists on other platforms