Can you call a webservice from TSQL code?
Yes , you can create like this
CREATE PROCEDURE CALLWEBSERVICE(@Para1 ,@Para2)
AS
BEGIN
Declare @Object as Int;
Declare @ResponseText as Varchar(8000);
Exec sp_OACreate 'MSXML2.XMLHTTP', @Object OUT;
Exec sp_OAMethod @Object, 'open', NULL, 'get', 'http://www.webservicex.com/stockquote.asmx/GetQuote?symbol=MSFT','false'
Exec sp_OAMethod @Object, 'send'
Exec sp_OAMethod @Object, 'responseText', @ResponseText OUTPUT
Select @ResponseText
Exec sp_OADestroy @Object
END
Sure you can, but this is a terrible idea.
As web-service calls may take arbitrary amounts of time, and randomly fail, depending on how many games of counterstrike are being played on your network at the time, you can't tell how long this is going to take.
At the bare minimum you're looking at probably half a second by the time it builds the XML, sends the HTTP request to the remote server, which then has to parse the XML and send a response back.
Whichever application did the
INSERT INTO BLAH
query which caused the web-service to fire is going to have to wait for it to finish. Unless this is something that only happens in the background like a daily scheduled task, your app's performance is going to bombThe web service-invoking code runs inside SQL server, and uses up it's resources. As it's going to take a long time to wait for the HTTP request, you'll end up using up a lot of resources, which will again hurt the performance of your server.