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yellowman
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Posted - 11/28/2012 :  16:11:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Anyone know where I am going wrong here:


EXEC('IF EXEC sp_executesql N''' +@command+ ' =  '' '' '' PRINT ''' +@DB_Name+ '''')


The error says the following
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'EXEC'.
Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 2
Line 2: Incorrect syntax near ' '.

Thanks

Elizabeth B. Darcy
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Posted - 11/28/2012 :  17:49:56  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Looks like you have couple of extra spaces. Try if this works?
EXEC('IF EXEC sp_executesql N''' +@command+ ' =  '''''' PRINT ''' +@DB_Name+ '''')


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madhivanan
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Posted - 11/29/2012 :  02:47:54  Show Profile  Send madhivanan a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
What are you trying to do with that code? You can't use IF on EXEC

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yellowman
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Posted - 11/29/2012 :  08:52:35  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Your right, using IF in that statement above doesn't work. I know what I want, I just don't know how to get there.

@command is a SELECT statement that either outputs a number or returns and empty set. If @command returns an empty set, I want to output the database name (@DB_Name).

I tried to eliminate the IF statement (below), but that didn't work either.


SELECT @command = 'USE ' +@DB_Name+ ' 
                   SELECT * FROM ' 
                   +@DB_Name + '.CQ_DBO.schema_version'
  

EXEC('sp_executesql N''''' +@command+ ' ISNULL PRINT ''' +@DB_Name+ '''''''')

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nigelrivett
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Posted - 11/29/2012 :  10:43:49  Show Profile  Visit nigelrivett's Homepage  Reply with Quote
declare @t table (format for return from select statement)
select @command = 'SELECT * FROM ' + @DB_Name + '.CQ_DBO.schema_version'

insert @t
exec (@command)

if not exists (select * from @t)
PRINT @DB_Name

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