I have multiple stored procedures stored in a MS SQL database. I have my connection setup fine, but having problems passing variables into it. Here is my sp call: 
#execute stored procedure
my $sp = $msdbh->prepare(qq|usp_Dashboard_CallType \@start = 20080101|
+);
$sp->execute or die("$sp->errstr");

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It doesn't like the date I am passing shown here: 
DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL 
+Server]Error converting data type int to datetime.

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I have two questions about this: 1) How can I pass the variables properly in the format the SQL server wants, and 2) I need to execute this stored procedure for every date starting from the beginning of the year up until yesterday. I am assuming I need to loop through the an array somehow, maybe put this and the other stored procedure executions I need to do into a subroutine and pass each date one by one to the sub, while converting it properly to the SQL datetime? I am also looking into the fact there may be a problem with what the SQL server is doing as far as conversion. But regardless, Is this correct if I want to loop thru dates in a subroutine? 
my $sp = $msdbh->prepare(qq|usp_Dashboard_CallType \@start = $next_dat
+e|);

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In reply to DBI::ODBC Stored Procedure execution by hallikpapa

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