Tim Van Wassenhove

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21 Mar 2011

Invoke parameterized stored procedure with PowerShell

Here is a quick snippet that demonstrates how you can invoke a parametrized stored procedure with PowerShell:

$CreateTraceCommand = $SqlConnection.CreateCommand();
$CreateTraceCommand.CommandType = [System.Data.CommandType] "StoredProcedure";
$CreateTraceCommand.CommandText = "sp_trace_create";
$TraceIdParameter = $CreateTraceCommand.Parameters.Add("@traceid", [System.Data.SqlDbType] "Int");
$TraceIdParameter.Direction = [System.Data.ParameterDirection] "Output";
$OptionParameter = $CreateTraceCommand.Parameters.Add("@options", [System.Data.SqlDbType] "Int");
$OptionParameter.Value = [int] 2;
$TraceFileParameter = $CreateTraceCommand.Parameters.Add("@tracefile", [System.Data.SqlDbType] "NVarChar");
$TraceFileParameter.Value = [string] "c:\temp\test";

[void] $CreateTraceCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();

$TraceId = $TraceIdParameter.Value;
Write-Host "You created a trace with ```