GOAL: Pass in two parameters (a task and a primary key) to generate a list of tables. Take the list, and then dynamically construct insert statements with the aim to copy data from a production environment to a test environment. In other words, do programmatically what 'EDIT TOP 200' does...but a lot faster.
PROBLEM: The query spins and runs indefinitely. There should only be about 20-30 tables that the query will need to construct insert statements for...so I let it go for about 2 minutes before concluding that I probably have an infinite loop somewhere. Note that I'm not even inserting anything into the test database at this point.
At the moment I'm just trying to display the VALUES portion of the insert statements using the RAISERROR call. While the endgame isn't implemented, I'm hoping someone can help me figure out the problem.
Thus far:
USE MAINDB
DECLARE @PK int = 1000,
@TaskName nvarchar(50) = 'TASK',
@curTable nvarchar(75),
@curRow nvarchar(75),
@tmpStatement nvarchar(500),
@tmpInsert nvarchar(500)
RAISERROR('Retrieving Tables',0,1) WITH NOWAIT
DECLARE TableCursor CURSOR LOCAL FOR
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 2 PRMPTTBL.tTable as PromptTable
FROM THING1 TK INNER JOIN THING2 SC ON TK.tkNo=SC.tkNo
INNER JOIN Component EL on EL.scNo=SC.scNo
LEFT OUTER JOIN Field FLD1 on FLD1.cfNo=EL.cfNoPrompt1
LEFT OUTER JOIN MyTableTable MTTTBL on MTTTBL.tbNo=FLD1.tbNo
WHERE EL.CustNo=@Custno
AND (MTTTBL.tTable is not NULL AND MTTTBL.tTable not in('OneTableIDontWant'))
AND MTTTBL.tTable not like '%[_]d%' --eliminate any tables that are actually views
AND EL.cfNo > 0
AND TK.Description like @TaskName
RAISERROR('Table',0,1) WITH NOWAIT
OPEN TableCursor
FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @curTable
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
SET @tmpStatement = 'SELECT TOP 5 * FROM [MYCONN].TEST_MYDB.dbo.' + @curTable + ' where PK=' + Cast(@PK as nvarchar(10))
EXEC (@tmpStatement)
IF @@ROWCOUNT = 0
BEGIN
DECLARE RowCursor CURSOR LOCAL FOR
SELECT COLUMN_NAME
FROM REALDB.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = @curTable
RAISERROR('Row',0,1) WITH NOWAIT
OPEN RowCursor
FETCH NEXT FROM RowCursor INTO @curRow
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
SET @tmpInsert = @tmpInsert + ',' + @curRow
END
IF RIGHT(@tmpInsert,1) = ',' SET @tmpInsert = LEFT(@tmpInsert,LEN(@tmpInsert) -1)
RAISERROR(@tmpInsert,0,1) WITH NOWAIT
CLOSE RowCursor
DEALLOCATE RowCursor
SET @tmpInsert = ''
FETCH NEXT FROM RowCursor INTO @curRow
END
FETCH NEXT FROM TableCursor INTO @curTable
END
CLOSE TableCursor
DEALLOCATE TableCursor