must declare the scalar variable '@custid' using dbcontext.Database.SqlQuery?

Question

I am trying to execute stored procedure from bcontext.Database.SqlQuery using EF5.

It is throwing an error must declare the scalar variable '@custid'

  var results = _MiscContext.Database.SqlQuery<int>(
              "exec sp_GetStaff @custid",
              customerNumber).ToList<int>();

SP returns 1 if customerNumber is staff otherwise it return empty row.

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_GetStaff]
    @custid varchar(12)
AS
BEGIN

    SET NOCOUNT ON;
SELECT 
1 AS [C1]
FROM  [dbo].[Staff] with (nolock)
WHERE [CUSTOMER_ID] = @custid


END

How to manage this?

Solution 1

Since you're using named parameters, you have to specify the matching name for the parameter you're passing.

var results = _MiscContext.Database.SqlQuery<int>(
    "exec sp_GetStaff @custid",
    new SqlParameter("custid", customerNumber)).ToList<int>();

Solution 2

Try

var results = _MiscContext.Database.SqlQuery<int>(
              "exec sp_GetStaff {0}",
              customerNumber).ToList();

Comments

[Edward Brey]

This loses the performance and security benefits of a parameterized query.

[Kinetic]

You are awesome, Microsoft are not, see here where they claim you can simply add the parameters docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/querying/raw-sql. Also, if you get a weird error when you try the above fix, check the namespaces used. See: stackoverflow.com/questions/22705767/…