Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/09/05 00:42

Stu (stuart.ainsworth@gmail.com) writes:
> If you want to continue along this path, then you need to construct
> your entire SQL statement as a variable,

NO!!!!!

This is a possible solution, but there is no "need" to use it. It is
in fact one of the poorest solutions there is.

Please look at http://www.sommarskog.se/arrays-in-sql.html for a whole
range of alternatives, and why dynamic SQL is so bad.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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