Myself, I came up from the operations side of the fence.
My initial college education was in architectural drafting, I took a job with a small mail-order computer parts company...

The problem is, you've got you're code inside a "SET @sql=" block, so what's happening is when it hits the single quote around your /, it thinks that's the end...

Couple possibilities.
First, I'd bet that your workplace firewall (not the firewall in Windows, this would be your workplace router / firewall) isn't configured to allow the SQL port through...

So much fun trying to track database migrations to new servers, trying to keep track of which DB is going to which server and which are done and not...
I...

Possibly the best route to take would be to go to the bosses with your concerns, along with several possible solutions / mitigations (and rank the solutions honestly based on...