A system procedure defined only as a single SELECT statement in the body is sometimes inlined when called in the FROM clause of a query. That is, the query is rewritten to be equivalent to the original query but without the procedure definition. When a procedure is inlined, it is rewritten as a derived table. A procedure is never inlined if it uses default arguments, or if it contains anything other than a single SELECT statement in the body.
For example, suppose you create the following procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE Test1( arg1 INT ) BEGIN SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE EmployeeID=arg1 END; |
Now suppose you call the procedure in a FROM clause of a query as follows:
SELECT * FROM Test1( 200 ); |
The database server may rewrite the query as follows:
SELECT * FROM ( SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE EmployeeID=CAST( 200 AS INT ) ) AS Test1; |
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