将用户定义的表类型与生成的数据库部署脚本一起使用时出现问题

Question

I'm having a strange issue with VS2010's database project not able to execute a generated deployment script that uses a user-defined table type in an SP's parameter list. I get the following error when executing the deployment script:

Error SQL01268: .Net SqlClient Data Provider: Msg 137, Level 16, State 1, Procedure AppSearch, Line 36 Must declare the scalar variable "@platforms".

The @platforms variable here is a user-defined table type, that is defined simply like this:

CREATE TYPE [dbo].[IdList] AS TABLE 
(
    Id      uniqueidentifier
);

The stored procedure that I am creating looks like the following, which uses the UDDT as one of its parameters:

PRINT N'Creating [dbo].[AppSearch]...';


GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[AppSearch]
    @nameContains           nvarchar(30),
    @descriptionContains    nvarchar(max),
    @isEditorsPick          bit,
    @dateAddedStart         datetime,
    @dateAddedEnd           datetime,
    @platforms              IdList      readonly
AS
begin
    select
        l.Id as [LibraryId],
        l.Name as [LibraryName],
        l.Description as [LibraryDescription],
        c.Id as [CategoryId],
        c.Name as [CategoryName],
        c.Description as [CategoryDescription],
        a.Id as [AppId],
        a.Name as [AppName],
        a.Description as [AppDescription],
        a.IsEditorsPick as [AppIsEditorsPick],
        a.DateAdded as [AppDateAdded],
        p.Id as [PlatformId],
        p.Name as [PlatformName],
        p.Architecture as [PlatformArchitecture]
    from
        Library l
        inner join Category c               on l.Id = c.ParentLibraryId
        inner join App a                    on c.Id = a.ParentCategoryId
        inner join AppSupportedPlatform px  on a.Id = px.AppId
        inner join Platform p               on px.PlatformId = p.Id
    where
            (@nameContains is not null and a.Name like '%' + @nameContains + '%')
        and (@descriptionContains is not null and a.Description like '%' + @descriptionContains + '%')
        and (@isEditorsPick is not null and a.IsEditorsPick = @isEditorsPick)
        and (@dateAddedStart is not null and @dateAddedEnd is not null and a.DateAdded between @dateAddedStart and @dateAddedEnd)
        and (@platforms is not null and p.Id in (select Id from @platforms))
end
GO

The deployment script gets executed using SQLCMD mode. Any ideas on why I'm getting the above error?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Consider that a table type should act somewhat like a table. You can't say "if TABLE is NOT NULL" so why should you be able to say "if TABLE TYPE is NOT NULL"? I haven't used TVPs extensively, but how about checking that the TVP is not empty:

AND (EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM @platforms) AND p.Id IN (SELECT Id FROM @platforms));

The latter might be enough (again that is more from lack of playing with TVPs than anything) or maybe:

AND (p.Id IN (SELECT Id FROM @platforms) OR NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM @platforms));