Question: Here's my scenario:

Let's say I have a stored procedure in which I need to call another stored procedure on a set of specific ids; is there a way to do this?

i.e. instead of needing to do this:

```
exec p_MyInnerProcedure 4
exec p_MyInnerProcedure 7
exec p_MyInnerProcedure 12
exec p_MyInnerProcedure 22
exec p_MyInnerProcedure 19

```

Doing something like this:

```
*magic where I specify my list contains 4,7,12,22,19*

DECLARE my_cursor CURSOR FAST_FORWARD FOR
*magic select*

OPEN my_cursor 
FETCH NEXT FROM my_cursor INTO @MyId
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN

exec p_MyInnerProcedure @MyId

FETCH NEXT FROM my_cursor INTO @MyId
END

```

My Main goal here is simply maintainability (easy to remove/add id's as the business changes), being able to list out all Id's on a single line... Performance shouldn't be as big of an issue

Answer: 
What I do in this scenario is create a table variable to hold the Ids.

```
  Declare @Ids Table (id integer primary Key not null)
  Insert @Ids(id) values (4),(7),(12),(22),(19)

```

-- (or call another table valued function to generate this table)

Then loop based on the rows in this table

```
  Declare @Id Integer
  While exists (Select * From @Ids)
    Begin
      Select @Id = Min(id) from @Ids
      exec p_MyInnerProcedure @Id 
      Delete from @Ids Where id = @Id
    End

```

or...

```
  Declare @Id Integer = 0 -- assuming all Ids are > 0
  While exists (Select * From @Ids
                where id > @Id)
    Begin
      Select @Id = Min(id) 
      from @Ids Where id > @Id
      exec p_MyInnerProcedure @Id 
    End

```

Either of above approaches is much faster than a cursor (declared against regular User Table(s)). Table-valued variables have a bad rep because when used improperly, (for very wide tables with large number of rows) they are not performant. But if you are using them only to hold a key value or a 4 byte integer, with a index (as in this case) they are extremely fast.
```
CREATE TABLE #ListOfIDs (IDValue INT)

DECLARE @IDs VARCHAR(50), @ID VARCHAR(5)
SET @IDs = @OriginalListOfIDs + ','

WHILE LEN(@IDs) > 1
BEGIN
SET @ID = SUBSTRING(@IDs, 0, CHARINDEX(',', @IDs));
INSERT INTO #ListOfIDs (IDValue) VALUES(@ID);
SET @IDs = REPLACE(',' + @IDs, ',' + @ID + ',', '')
END

SELECT * 
FROM #ListOfIDs

```