Handling foreign keys in T-SQL select stored procedure? - asp.net

Question

I'm writing stored procedures to get data based on a given id and that's all well and good, but some of the columns are foreign keys and what I need are their values. How do I do all of this within a stored procedure?
For reference, I will be using ASP.NET (haven't learned it yet) to call these stored procedures and update the website.
For instance, in the AdventureWorks database:
CREATE PROCEDURE spLoadProduct
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
SELECT
[ProductID], [Name],
[ProductCategoryID], [ProductModelID]
FROM
[SalesLT].[Product]
END
Screenshot of current SP result
What I want is for the last two columns to return the actual category and model names, not the foreign keys. Is the standard practice to do it all in one stored procedure as I am trying to do?

Answer 1

Maybe I am misinterpreting your question, but you can include joins in stored procedures.
Example if you have where afkey links out to table 2
Table_1: Table_2:
id name afkey akey otherinfo
1 fred 1 1 info
2 jon 2 2 other
3 abbie 3 3 more info
If you want to display the otherinfo column instead of the afkey foreign key
You could have:
create PROCEDURE spLoad
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
SELECT NAME, OTHERINFO
FROM TABLE_1
INNER JOIN TABLE_2
ON TABLE_1.afkey = TABLE_2.akey
END

Answer 2

You can use INNER JOIN to join the parent table to the child tables. In this case, the child tables are ProductCategory, and ProductModel.
CREATE PROCEDURE spLoadProduct
AS
BEGIN
SELECT
p.ProductID
, p.Name
, p.ProductCategoryID
, p.ProductModelID
, ProductCategoryName = pc.Name
, ProductModelName = pm.Name
FROM
SalesLT.Product p
INNER JOIN SalesLT.ProductCategory pc ON p.ProductCategoryID = pc.ProductCategoryID
INNER JOIN SalesLT.ProductModel pm ON p.ProductModelID = pm.ProductModelID;
END
Inner join tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_join_inner.asp