Thank you Dwain,

True what you say.

I was trying not to use DROP per various blogs herein. Since posting I have done it this way.

USE <dbname>

SET ANSI_NULLS ON

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON

declare @s-2 VARCHAR (16), @a varchar (8), @b-2 varchar (MAX)

SET @s-2='SPname'

if object_id(@S,'P') is not null

begin

set @a='ALTER'

end

else begin

set @a='CREATE'

end

set @b-2 = ' PROCEDURE [dbo].[' + @s-2 + ']

<procedure script>'

SET @b-2=@A+@B

EXEC @b-2