• I MUCH prefer to do my dynamic SQL this way. Now I don't have to worry about if it is 1, 2, 3, N stupid single quotes to make the string correct!! 🙂

    SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF

    GO

    declare @dbname varchar(50),@objname varchar(20),@sql varchar(1000)

    set @dbname='XYZ'

    Set @objname='TMP'

    Set @sql="Select * from "+@dbname+".sys.objects where name = '"+@objname+"'"

    Execute (@sql)

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
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