Table Argument as OUTPUT
I want to pass a table variable into a procedure that has table argument as output,
but not as read only! I want to be able to modify that argument inside the PROC.
Is this possible?
If it's not possible, is there another way to do this?
thanks!
You'd have to copy the table valued parameter into a table variable or temp table
CREATE PROC DoStuff
@tvp SomeTableType READONLY
AS
..
SELECT * INTO #LocalCopy FROM @tvp; -- take local copy
...
DoStuff -- do processing on the input
...
SELECT ... FROM LocalCopy; --return results to client
GO
After comment, a table valued parameter can not be declared OUTPUT. From CREATE PROC
A table-value data type cannot be specified as an OUTPUT parameter of a procedure.