Posted by Mike Epprecht \(SQL MVP\) on 12/16/05 22:20

Hi

Dynamic SQL is your answer here.
http://www.sommarskog.se/dynamic_sql.html

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"adi" <Adityanad@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> Seems like a fundamental question to me but I dont have a definite
> answer for it, Gurus please enlighten me.
>
> I have a table 'Table1' whose structure changes dynamically based on
> some configuration values from another table. This table is being used
> by a program, It was initially used by this program which ran as a
> single task (executing at only a specific interval) but now the program
> has to be run mutiple times some coinciding with each othe - which
> meant that table structure will change as 2 programs are running
> simultaneously... and therefore I have decided to use seperate table
> names that each has a structure of its now.
>
> I use this table name 'Table1' in about 10-15 stored procedures and
> UDF's
>
> to make the long story short: Since I will not know which table I will
> be using in the program I want to pass the table name as an argument to
> the SP and UDF's and then access this param in the
> 'select's/updates/inserts' - but this doesn't work unless I use Dynamic
> SQL.
>
> Is there any other way of passing table names as parameters and then
> using then in the procs?
>
> any ideas will be really helpful.
> adi
>

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