dynamic sql to create the database? that won't fix any warnign where you have a USE [NewDB] that doesn't exist at parse time, i think:
if NOT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM sys.databases WHERE name='NewDb')
BEGIN
EXEC ('CREATE DATABASE NewDB')
END
Lowell
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