Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Unleashed, Second Edition

Using Input Parameters

To increase stored procedure flexibility and perform more complex processing, you can pass parameters to the procedures. The parameters can be used anywhere that local variables can be used within the procedure. For more information on how to use local variables, refer to Chapter 26.

Following is an example of a stored procedure that requires three parameters:

CREATE PROC myproc 
 @parm1 int, @parm2 int, @parm3 int
AS
-- Processing goes here
RETURN

To help identify the data values for which the parameters are defined, it is recommended that you give your parameters meaningful names. Parameter names, such as local variables, can be up to 128 characters in length including the @ sign, and they must follow SQL Server rules ...