Do you mean like this (for your original query)

EXECUTE('select * from [' + @dbname + '].dbo.tblAccounts where [date]=''09/04/1998''')

Note the number of single quotes

As a matter of interest why do you not do this

SELECT ci.itemName

FROM Content_Items ci

INNER JOIN Content_Pages AS cp ON ci.contentItemId = cp.contentItemId

INNER JOIN FREETEXTTABLE(Content_Items, title, @searchString) AS...

Ditto 😀

What a nice friendly dialogue :w00t:

Must be painful with all that back slapping 😉

Sure you will, we all started as beginners 😉

Now we try to elevate ourselves to Jeffs' level...

:ermm: suspicious question

SELECT employeeid, sickleavehours + (vacationhours * salariedflag) AS [paidtimeoff]

Plus only counting nullable columns will reduce the size of the query

Could build several strings and then EXEC(@string1+@string2+@string3)

Or use a cursor like this (but performance could be poor due to...

* -1 should work

what is the datatype and what makes you think it did not work

btw

preceding a column or variable with - will achieve the same, eg

DECLARE @myvariable int...

Notwithstanding the above, I think this might work

You will need a Numbers table (search this site for examples)

SELECT k.[ID],k.Word,k.WordCategory

FROM (SELECT SUBSTRING(' ' + @String + ' ',

...

SELECT j.[name],

MAX(CAST(

STUFF(STUFF(CAST(jh.run_date as varchar),7,0,'-'),5,0,'-') + ' ' +

STUFF(STUFF(REPLACE(STR(jh.run_time,6,0),' ','0'),5,0,':'),3,0,':') as datetime)) AS [LastRun]

FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs j

INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory jh

ON jh.job_id = j.job_id AND jh.step_id = 0

WHERE j.[name]...

Is the database really the best place to do this?

However providing the data is always in the format specified then this is how I would do it

Create a temp table...

Wow :w00t:

A cool headed amicable discussion about Banker's Rounding 😎

Amazing 😉

Correct 🙂

n.Number is the char position of the...

Where does the data come from?

If from a table then you can use this in a subquery

SELECTa.AccountNo,a.[Date],SUBSTRING(',' + a.[String] + ',', n.Number + 1,

CHARINDEX(',', ',' + a.[String] + ',',...

Thanks Peter 🙂

What is ticCount supposed to signify?

Please edit your post and insert spacing as I cannot determine what data belongs in which column