I've been trying to get this right for some time now with no use.
I have a table in mssql database and I want to insert new row using stored procedure
CREATE TABLE "Customers" (
"CustomerID" NCHAR(5) NOT NULL,
"CompanyName" NVARCHAR(40) NOT NULL,
"ContactName" NVARCHAR(30) NULL,
"ContactTitle" NVARCHAR(30) NULL,
"Address" NVARCHAR(60) NULL,
"City" NVARCHAR(15) NULL,
"Region" NVARCHAR(15) NULL,
"PostalCode" NVARCHAR(10) NULL,
"Country" NVARCHAR(15) NULL,
"Phone" NVARCHAR(24) NULL,
"Fax" NVARCHAR(24) NULL,
PRIMARY KEY ("CustomerID")
);
The problem is CustomerID field which contains unique string for each record (ALFKI, BERGS, BERGS, etc.)
I want to make a stored procedure which will insert a row with new data and create an unique CustomerID. Build in functions are out of a question as I need the string to be 5 chars long.
I have a procedure which generates 5 chars ID as follows
begin
declare @chars char(26) = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
declare @i int = 0
declare @id varchar(max) = ''
while @i < 5
begin
set @id = @id + substring(@chars, cast(ceiling(rand() * 26) as int), 1)
set @i = @i + 1
end
Select (cast(@id as nvarchar(400)))
end
And the one that I tried to make work with no use. It is supposed to select an unique id (set @id = 'ANATR' is there on purpose to make it go into the loop
begin
declare @randID varchar(5) = ''
declare @selectID varchar(20) = ''
declare @chars char(26) = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
declare @i int = 0
declare @id varchar(10) = ''
while @i < 5
begin
set @id = @id + substring(@chars, cast(ceiling(rand() * 26) as int), 1)
set @i = @i + 1
end
select @id
set @id = 'ANATR'
SET @selectID = (SELECT CustomerID FROM CUSTOMERS WHERE CustomerID = @id)
while @selectID <> 'NULL'
begin
set @id = ''
while @i < 5
begin
set @id = @id + substring(@chars, cast(ceiling(rand() * 26) as int), 1)
set @i = @i + 1
end
SET @selectID = (SELECT CustomerID FROM CUSTOMERS WHERE CustomerID = @id)
SELECT @id
end
end
Here is the insert procedure I have at the moment
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[InsertCustomers]
(
@CustomerID nchar(5),
@CompanyName nvarchar(40),
@ContactName nvarchar(30) = NULL,
@ContactTitle nvarchar(30) = NULL,
@Address nvarchar(60) = NULL,
@City nvarchar(15) = NULL,
@Region nvarchar(15) = NULL,
@PostalCode nvarchar(10) = NULL,
@Country nvarchar(15) = NULL,
@Phone nvarchar(24) = NULL,
@Fax nvarchar(24) = NULL
)
AS
SET NOCOUNT OFF;
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Customers] ([CustomerID], [CompanyName], [ContactName], [ContactTitle], [Address], [City], [Region], [PostalCode], [Country], [Phone], [Fax]) VALUES (@CustomerID, @CompanyName, @ContactName, @ContactTitle, @Address, @City, @Region, @PostalCode, @Country, @Phone, @Fax);