How to execute more than one stored procedure at a time?

[dougancil]

I have a form that requires me to execute several stored procedures one after the other. I'm wondering how to do that in vb.net. I realize that I could just have one stored procedure with all of my queries in it, but for clarities sake, I want to keep them seperate.

Thank you

Doug

[yarbrough40]

sql = "EXEC sp_1;EXEC sp_2;EXEC sp_3"

[dougancil]

yarbrough,

I tried that and could never seem to get the sp's to execute. I have instead gone with this:

 Dim oCmd2 As System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand
        Dim oDr2 As System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader
        oCmd2 = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand
        Try
            With oCmd2
                .Connection = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("Initial Catalog=mdr;Data Source=1xxxxx;uid=xxxxx;password=xxxxx")
                .Connection.Open()
                .CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
                .CommandText = "exec sp_opsum @payperiodstartdate = " + payperiodstartdate + ",@payperiodenddate=" + payperiodenddate + ";" + _
 "exec sp_opintcheck @payperiodstartdate = " + payperiodstartdate + ",@payperiodenddate=" + payperiodenddate + ";" + _
 "exec sp_opexceptsum @payperiodstartdate = " + payperiodstartdate + ",@payperiodenddate=" + payperiodenddate + ";" + _
 "exec sp_empsum @payperiodstartdate = " + payperiodstartdate + ",@payperiodenddate=" + payperiodenddate + ";" + _
 "exec sp_empexceptsum @payperiodstartdate = " + payperiodstartdate + ",@payperiodenddate=" + payperiodenddate + ";"
                oDr2 = .ExecuteReader()
                oCmd2.Connection.Close()
            End With
        Catch ex As Exception
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
            oCmd2.Connection.Close()
        End Try
        SPRun()

which still doesnt work