I thank David Dresser for a good job parsing this out. I tried making it slightly more coder-friendly by renaming the proc "JO" and the variable "KO". I then found that all but the first delimiter "Go" statements didn't seem to be needed at all. CREATE PROC JO @KO int=NULL AS SELECT @KO

GO

JO;

GO 3

--GO

EXECUTE('JO 3')

GO 3

--GO

DROP PROC JO

--GO