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Can we pass parameters to a view in SQL?

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Can we pass parameter to view in mysql?

Better yet, you can pass parameters to your views in a simple manner by creating a Function to GET your values from Session Variables.

Can we pass parameter to view in Oracle?

You can't pass a parameter to a view.

Can I declare variable in view?

You can't declare variables in a view.


As already stated you can't.

A possible solution would be to implement a stored function, like:

CREATE FUNCTION v_emp (@pintEno INT)
RETURNS TABLE
AS
RETURN
   SELECT * FROM emp WHERE emp_id=@pintEno;

This allows you to use it as a normal view, with:

SELECT * FROM v_emp(10)

There are two ways to achieve what you want. Unfortunately, neither can be done using a view.

You can either create a table valued user defined function that takes the parameter you want and returns a query result

Or you can do pretty much the same thing but create a stored procedure instead of a user defined function.

For example:

the stored procedure would look like

CREATE PROCEDURE s_emp
(
    @enoNumber INT
) 
AS 
SELECT
    * 
FROM
    emp 
WHERE 
    emp_id=@enoNumber

Or the user defined function would look like

CREATE FUNCTION u_emp
(   
    @enoNumber INT
)
RETURNS TABLE 
AS
RETURN 
(
    SELECT    
        * 
    FROM    
        emp 
    WHERE     
        emp_id=@enoNumber
)

Normally views are not parameterized. But you could always inject some parameters. For example using session context:

CREATE VIEW my_view
AS
SELECT *
FROM tab
WHERE num = SESSION_CONTEXT(N'my_num');

Invocation:

EXEC sp_set_session_context 'my_num', 1; 
SELECT * FROM my_view;

And another:

EXEC sp_set_session_context 'my_num', 2; 
SELECT * FROM my_view;

DBFiddle Demo

The same is applicable for Oracle (of course syntax for context function is different).


No you can't, as Mladen Prajdic said. Think of a view as a "static filter" on a table or a combination of tables. For example: a view may combine tables Order and Customer so you get a new "table" of rows from Order along with new columns containing the customer's name and the customer number (combination of tables). Or you might create a view that selects only unprocessed orders from the Order table (static filter).

You'd then select from the view like you would select from any other "normal" table - all "non-static" filtering must be done outside the view (like "Get all the orders for customers called Miller" or "Get unprocessed orders that came in on Dec 24th").