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July 4th, 2006, 07:44 AM

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Parsing in SQL

hi

is it possible to do something like i give a text argument to a stored procedure and it handles it like a command or such?

for example

Code:

CREATE PROCEDURE myproc (tablename CHAR(30))
AS
BEGIN

  SELECT * FROM tablename

END;

and there the tablename to be "understood"

July 4th, 2006, 11:18 AM

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September 25th, 2006, 05:46 PM

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just concactene it as :

Code:

CREATE PROCEDURE myproc (tablename CHAR(30))
AS
BEGIN

  'SELECT * FROM ' ||:tablename;

  PUT YOUR EXECUTION CODE HERE...

 SUSPEND;

END;

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Originally Posted by nagysz

hi

is it possible to do something like i give a text argument to a stored procedure and it handles it like a command or such?

for example

Code:

CREATE PROCEDURE myproc (tablename CHAR(30))
AS
BEGIN

  SELECT * FROM tablename

END;

and there the tablename to be "understood"

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