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I have a table in SQL in which I inserted my other table names. There is a Table names column. So, is it possible (programmatically inside SQL) getting the table names from this column and use them in stored procedure as table name? How? inside SQL. thanks

Posted 12-Mar-13 12:42pm

Daqdibi

Updated 12-Mar-13 12:57pm

Yvan Rodrigues

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Yvan Rodrigues · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-12T12:55:00

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It's uncommon but it's possible.

The magic beans you are looking for is called a prepared statement[^].

You could query your table-table for a table name and assign that to a variable and then construct the SQL for the prepared statement on-the-fly.

See The Curse and Blessing of Dynamic SQL[^]

Posted 12-Mar-13 12:55pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Mar-13 19:25pm

5ed.
—SA