@vineetmodi@Zak2815@anakoom Letting the cat out of the bag a little early here as I'm going to write up a blog around this, but rather than use a stored procedure you can use a Table Valued Function. This function allows for input parameters to be passed in. For example: if I were to query the AdventureWorks2014 database and a function in there looks like this:
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[ufnGetContactInformation](@PersonID int)
RETURNS @retContactInformation TABLE
(
-- Columns returned by the function
[PersonID] int NOT NULL,
[FirstName] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
[LastName] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
[JobTitle] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
[BusinessEntityType] [nvarchar](50) NULL
)
AS
-- Returns the first name, last name, job title and business entity type for the specified contact.
-- Since a contact can serve multiple roles, more than one row may be returned.
BEGIN
IF @PersonID IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM [HumanResources].[Employee] e
WHERE e.[BusinessEntityID] = @PersonID)
INSERT INTO @retContactInformation
SELECT @PersonID, p.FirstName, p.LastName, e.[JobTitle], 'Employee'
FROM [HumanResources].[Employee] AS e
INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] p
ON p.[BusinessEntityID] = e.[BusinessEntityID]
WHERE e.[BusinessEntityID] = @PersonID;
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM [Purchasing].[Vendor] AS v
INNER JOIN [Person].[BusinessEntityContact] bec
ON bec.[BusinessEntityID] = v.[BusinessEntityID]
WHERE bec.[PersonID] = @PersonID)
INSERT INTO @retContactInformation
SELECT @PersonID, p.FirstName, p.LastName, ct.[Name], 'Vendor Contact'
FROM [Purchasing].[Vendor] AS v
INNER JOIN [Person].[BusinessEntityContact] bec
ON bec.[BusinessEntityID] = v.[BusinessEntityID]
INNER JOIN [Person].ContactType ct
ON ct.[ContactTypeID] = bec.[ContactTypeID]
INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] p
ON p.[BusinessEntityID] = bec.[PersonID]
WHERE bec.[PersonID] = @PersonID;
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM [Sales].[Store] AS s
INNER JOIN [Person].[BusinessEntityContact] bec
ON bec.[BusinessEntityID] = s.[BusinessEntityID]
WHERE bec.[PersonID] = @PersonID)
INSERT INTO @retContactInformation
SELECT @PersonID, p.FirstName, p.LastName, ct.[Name], 'Store Contact'
FROM [Sales].[Store] AS s
INNER JOIN [Person].[BusinessEntityContact] bec
ON bec.[BusinessEntityID] = s.[BusinessEntityID]
INNER JOIN [Person].ContactType ct
ON ct.[ContactTypeID] = bec.[ContactTypeID]
INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] p
ON p.[BusinessEntityID] = bec.[PersonID]
WHERE bec.[PersonID] = @PersonID;
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM [Person].[Person] AS p
INNER JOIN [Sales].[Customer] AS c
ON c.[PersonID] = p.[BusinessEntityID]
WHERE p.[BusinessEntityID] = @PersonID AND c.[StoreID] IS NULL)
INSERT INTO @retContactInformation
SELECT @PersonID, p.FirstName, p.LastName, NULL, 'Consumer'
FROM [Person].[Person] AS p
INNER JOIN [Sales].[Customer] AS c
ON c.[PersonID] = p.[BusinessEntityID]
WHERE p.[BusinessEntityID] = @PersonID AND c.[StoreID] IS NULL;
END
RETURN;
END;
In my advanced options - SQL Query in Power BI I can call it just executing the select like this:
select * from [dbo].[ufnGetContactInformation] (73)
and the output is returned as expected. This also allows you to do any CTE's or temp tables within the function.
