Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/08/07 22:39

SQLJunkie (vsinha73@gmail.com) writes:
> Thanks everyone for the replies. The following example is fine for
> generic SPs:
> SELECT @SPname = @DatabaseName + '.dbo.SPName'
> EXEC @SPname
>
> But what if I have to run SPs like SP_updatestats etc? then it will
> not work.

Au contraire, it will work just fine! If you say:

EXEC mydb..sp_systemprocedure

the system procedure will execute in the context of mydb.

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

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