Hi Kinnon,

Check under "System Stored Procedures" in BOL. I think you will find them all there - sp_adduser etc, etc.

They are all in the master db....

Best regards

Have fun

Hi All,

It's not a competition mate Good to see you still around (and yes, i'm still trying to get an incremented number to...

Hi Arjen,

You aren't doing anything 'wrong', I think you are just trying to get what you cant have.....

You have the answer here :- "I do know that sp_executesql runs in...

Hi CCB, Howdy Farrell,

Thats going to hurt.......

DECLARE @VARS nvarchar(2000)

SET @VARS = '''1''' + ',' + '''3''' + ',' + '''7''' + ',' +...

Hi CCB,

I prefer the Dynamic approach i'm afraid.

I am just taking as red that your key value is an integer or some form of incrementing number.

You are asking SS to...

Hi,

I think you'll find BEGIN......END flags around each bit, with decent nesting to show what you need to achieve - will remove all the problems. e.g:-

If @abc = 'A'

BEGIN

   ...

Unfortunately, I didn't really answer the original question - it is just to give you an alternative approach.

I am fairly sure they are very similar in terms of efficiency in...

Hi,

If you go to Tools->Options->Connection Properties you can uncheck "Set quoted_identifier" which will allow you to use double quotes.

Unfortunately this is really bad practice and...

Hi,

You can accomplish the loop without cursors:-

------------------------------------------------------

CREATE TABLE #source(

  source_id varchar(16),

  source_text varchar(80)

)

INSERT INTO #source(source_id,source_text)

VALUES('1','Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo')

INSERT INTO #source(source_id,source_text)

VALUES('2','Fox Golf Hotel India Juliet')

CREATE TABLE #target(

  target_id integer IDENTITY(1,1)...

I hadn't noticed that.

Remi is 100% right, if its a web based project, you need to be very aware of the dangers of Dynamic SQL.

There are ways of minimising...

Hi Guys,

Just edit the sproc and make it say -

exec (@mysql)

not -

exec @mysql

Have fun

Hi again Raju,

Surely your udf should be passed a complete line as a varchar eg:

''+dbo.udf_get_string('ZS01|0002|03|01783-03760|31.12.9999|20.09.2001|0000029494|,number+1,|)+''

From what I can see you appear to just be missing the single quotes to create...

Hi Raju,

Not even attempting to work out what you are up to with this......

You need to build your sequel into a string, then EXEC it - or use sp_executesql.

I...

Hi Raju,

A little more information is required here matey.

What is the problem exactly and an example would be a great help to everyone else understanding.

Have...

No worries.

Stefano,

Yep it does work, iv'e never seen it used like that before - it must populate the variables before executing the sp_executesql line....

I have used sp_executesql in a similar...