select statements within a function issue

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select statements within a function issue

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cplusplus
Aged Yak Warrior

567 Posts

Posted - 2011-05-08 : 19:40:20

I am getting the following issue, when i tried the following within a function:
select statements included within a function cannot return data to a client.

-----Here is a bit within the function i am trying to use.

SET @output = select DATEDIFF(Day, GetDate(), @RESULTDAYS)
return @output

Thank you very much for the helpful info.

cplusplus
Aged Yak Warrior

567 Posts

Posted - 2011-05-08 : 19:58:13

Sorry, i need to put the select within the brackets. It is working now.

SET @output = (select DATEDIFF(Day, GetDate(), @RESULTDAYS))
return @output

Thank you.

robvolk
Most Valuable Yak

15732 Posts

Posted - 2011-05-08 : 20:00:28

You can also do:

SELECT @output = DATEDIFF(Day, GetDate(), @RESULTDAYS)

or

SET @output = DATEDIFF(Day, GetDate(), @RESULTDAYS)

You don't need SELECT unless you're getting data from a table, view, or tabular function.

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