How to declare array inside Sql Server Stored Procedure?

Question

Hi All

I need to declare 12 decimal variables, corresponding to each month's year, with a cursor I sum values to this variables, then later I Update some sales information.

I don't know if sql server have this syntax

 Declare MonthsSale(1 to 12) as decimal(18,2)

This code works Ok. !

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[proc_test]

AS BEGIN

--SET NOCOUNT ON;

DECLARE @monthsales TABLE ( monthnr int,    amount decimal(18,2)  )


-- PUT YOUR OWN CODE HERE


-- THIS IS TEST CODE
-- 1 REPRESENTS JANUARY, ...
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (1, 100)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (1, 100)

INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (2, 200)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (3, 300)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (4, 400)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (5, 500)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (6, 600)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (7, 700)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (8, 800)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (9, 900)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (10, 1000)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (11, 1100)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (12, 1200)


SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_1 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 1 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_2 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 2 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_3 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 3 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_4 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 4 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_5 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 5 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_6 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 6 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_7 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 7 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_8 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 8 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_9 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 9 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_10 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 10 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_11 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 11 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_12 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 12 GROUP BY monthnr

-- END TEST CODE

END

Answer 1

T-SQL doesn't support arrays that I'm aware of.

What's your table structure? You could probably design a query that does this instead:

select month, sum(sales) from sales_table group by month order by month

Answer 2

You could declare a table variable:

declare @MonthsSale (monthnr int)
insert into @MonthsSale (monthnr) values (1)
insert into @MonthsSale (monthnr) values (2)
...

You can add extra columns as you like:

declare @MonthsSale (monthnr int, totalsales tinyint)

You can update the table variable like any other table:

update m
set m.TotalSales = sum(s.SalesValue)
from @MotnthsSale m
left join Sales s on month(s.SalesDt) = m.MonthNr

Answer 3

Is there a reason why you aren't using a table variable and the aggregate SUM operator, instead of a cursor? SQL excels at set-oriented operations. 99.87% of the time that you find yourself using a cursor, there's a set-oriented alternative that's more efficient:

declare @MonthsSale table
(
MonthNumber int,
MonthName varchar(9),
MonthSale decimal(18,2)
)

insert into @MonthsSale
select
    1, 'January', 100.00
union select    
    2, 'February', 200.00
union select    
    3, 'March', 300.00
union select    
    4, 'April', 400.00
union select    
    5, 'May', 500.00
union select    
    6, 'June', 600.00
union select    
    7, 'July', 700.00
union select    
    8, 'August', 800.00
union select    
    9, 'September', 900.00
union select    
    10, 'October', 1000.00
union select    
    11, 'November', 1100.00
union select    
    12, 'December', 1200.00

select * from @MonthsSale   
select SUM(MonthSale) as [TotalSales] from @MonthsSale