How to declare an array inside MS SQL Server Stored Procedure?

Question

I need to declare 12 decimal variables, corresponding to each month's year, with a cursor I sum values to this variables, then later I Update some sales information.

I don't know if sql server has this syntax

 Declare MonthsSale(1 to 12) as decimal(18,2)

This code works Ok. !

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[proc_test]
AS
BEGIN

--SET NOCOUNT ON;

DECLARE @monthsales TABLE ( monthnr int,    amount decimal(18,2)    )


-- PUT YOUR OWN CODE HERE


-- THIS IS TEST CODE
-- 1 REPRESENTS JANUARY, ...
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (1, 100)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (1, 100)

INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (2, 200)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (3, 300)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (4, 400)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (5, 500)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (6, 600)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (7, 700)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (8, 800)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (9, 900)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (10, 1000)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (11, 1100)
INSERT @monthsales (monthnr, amount) VALUES (12, 1200)


SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_1 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 1 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_2 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 2 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_3 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 3 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_4 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 4 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_5 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 5 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_6 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 6 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_7 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 7 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_8 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 8 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_9 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 9 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_10 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 10 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_11 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 11 GROUP BY monthnr
SELECT monthnr, SUM(amount) AS SUM_MONTH_12 FROM @monthsales WHERE monthnr = 12 GROUP BY monthnr

-- END TEST CODE
END

Answer 1

You could declare a table variable (Declaring a variable of type table):

declare @MonthsSale table(monthnr int)
insert into @MonthsSale (monthnr) values (1)
insert into @MonthsSale (monthnr) values (2)
....

You can add extra columns as you like:

declare @MonthsSale table(monthnr int, totalsales tinyint)

You can update the table variable like any other table:

update m
set m.TotalSales = sum(s.SalesValue)
from @MonthsSale m
left join Sales s on month(s.SalesDt) = m.MonthNr