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ravilobo
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1184 Posts

Posted - 2009-05-06 : 10:40:11

I have a proc like below,

CREATE PROC foo @dbnm  varchar(100) = null
AS SELECT @dbnm 
go

When I try to execute as below it fails,

EXECUTE foo db_name()
GO

where as the folloing aproach works,

DECLARE @v varchar(100)
 SELECT @v = db_name()
EXECUTE foo @v

Is this how it supposed to work? Is there a way to achieve this in one EXECUTE statement?

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2009-05-06 : 12:45:15

Yes that's how it is supposed to work. You can not do it in one statement.

Tara Kizer
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server System - SQL Server
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ravilobo
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1184 Posts

Posted - 2009-05-06 : 12:50:26

Thank you, Tara.

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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2009-05-06 : 12:56:10

You're welcome.

Tara Kizer
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server System - SQL Server
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