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Browse All TopicsI have the following procedure that I use with VB/ADO to execute scripts and create tables. the script works great as long as I purge out the "GO" words from the scripting syntax before sending it as the SP parameter.
ALTER procedure [dbo].[SP_UpdateDBObjects]
@str nText
AS
Exec(@str)
I want to use this SP to update views and other SPs as well, but the problem I run into is when I send the script text to my SP_UpdateDBObjects, if the GO statement is in the script then I get an error that says "Incorrect syntax near 'GO'.
If I purge out the 'GO' words from the parameter then I get an error that says 'CREATE VIEW' must be the first statement in a query batch.
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by: aneeshattingalPosted on 2009-10-23 at 11:48:16ID: 25647190
you should use dynamic sql for this
ALTER procedure [dbo].[SP_UpdateDBObjects]
@str nText
AS
Exec(@str)
EXEC ('create procedure testsp as select 1 ' )
EXEC ('create procedure testsp2 as select 2 ' )
go