Use name of table as input in procedure and store the output of SELECT statement in output variable SQL I am trying to create a procedure, that will accept as input a variable called @tablename and will return as output the value of a variable called @myoutput. As the names of the variables signify, @tablename should be the name of a table and @myoutput should be just be the sum of the the first column of the table specified  by @tablename, divided by the number 3.3. The procedure I have written is the following:

CREATE PROCEDURE sample_proc
@tablename VARCHAR(MAX),
@myoutput DECIMAL(20,5) OUTPUT

AS
SET NOCOUNT ON;

    @myoutput=EXEC('SELECT SUM('+@tablename+'.column1)/3.3)'


When I just use EXEC(), the select statement is executed as it should, but I cannot get the value I want from the table. What I want, is to store the value I calculate in the variable @myoutput, and export that to my main script. The above code produces an error. Does anyone know how I can implement this?
First you're not using a valid syntax due your SELECT command has no FROM clause.

Then you should use sp_executesql just to take care of the output parameters.




create table xx (id int, column1 int);
create table yy (id int, column1 int);
insert into xx values (1, 1),(2,2),(3,3);
insert into yy values (1,10),(3,30),(4,40);
GO



6 rows affected






CREATE PROCEDURE sample_proc
(
    @tablename VARCHAR(MAX),
    @myoutput DECIMAL(20,5) OUTPUT
)
AS
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    DECLARE @Cmd NVARCHAR(MAX);
    DECLARE @ParmDefinition NVARCHAR(500);

    SET @ParmDefinition = '@Total decimal(20,5) OUTPUT';
    SET @Cmd = 'SELECT @Total = (SUM(column1)/3.3) FROM [' + @tablename + ']';

    -- just to show SQL command.
    SELECT @Cmd;

    EXEC sp_executesql @Cmd, @ParmDefinition, @Total = @myoutput out;
GO



✓






DECLARE @op DECIMAL(20,5);
EXEC sample_proc 'xx', @op OUT
SELECT @op;
EXEC sample_proc 'yy', @op OUT
SELECT @op;
GO



| (No column name)                             |
| :------------------------------------------- |
| SELECT @Total = (SUM(column1)/3.3) FROM [xx] |

| (No column name) |
| :--------------- |
| 1.81818          |

| (No column name)                             |
| :------------------------------------------- |
| SELECT @Total = (SUM(column1)/3.3) FROM [yy] |

| (No column name) |
| :--------------- |
| 24.24242         |



dbfiddle here