Querying Table In Arbitrary Database
May 1, 2006
Would appreciate some help with this one. I need to run a query on a known table an arbitrary database. The DB name will be selected at runtime.
What I've tried:
DECLARE @DBName varchar(10)
SET @DBName = 'WBTST'
SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT Col1, Col2
FROM [@DBName].dbo.Table1
GROUP BY Col1
Result:
Invalid object name '@DBName.dbo.UPR00100'.
I've also tried without the square brackets around @DBName in the FROM clause. This results in: Incorrect syntax near '.'.
Thanks for the help
Wes
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CREATE FUNCTION fctisnumericex(@c varchar(1))
RETURNS int AS
BEGIN
RETURN CASE WHEN ASCII(@c)>=ASCII('0') AND ASCII(@c)<=ASCII('9') THEN 1 ELSE 0 END END
CREATE FUNCTION fctstringincrement (@string varchar(255),@maxlen int)
RETURNS varchar(255) AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @@posr int
DECLARE @@posl int
DECLARE @@c varchar(1)
DECLARE @@token1 varchar(255)
DECLARE @@token varchar(255)
DECLARE @@token3 varchar(255)
DECLARE @@i int
/* emulates parts of the behaviour of s_modformatting::substringincrement */
/* 1. find the place where the numeric token starts from the right */
/* if we didn't find any non-numeric part then it might well be that the rightmost digit is already numeric */
IF dbo.fctisnumericex(SUBSTRING(@string,DATALENGTH(@string),1))=1
BEGIN
SELECT @@posr=DATALENGTH(@string)
END ELSE BEGIN
SELECT @@i=DATALENGTH(@string)
SELECT @@c=SUBSTRING(@string,@@i,1)
WHILE dbo.fctisnumericex(@@c)!=1 BEGIN
SELECT @@i=@@i-1
IF @@i<1 BEGIN BREAK END
SELECT @@c=SUBSTRING(@string,@@i,1)
END
SELECT @@posr=@@i
END
/* so have we got any numeric part inside that string? */
IF @@posr>0 BEGIN
/* yep. see how long it lasts */
SELECT @@i=@@posr
SELECT @@c=SUBSTRING(@string,@@i,1)
WHILE dbo.fctisnumericex(@@c)=1 BEGIN
SELECT @@posl=@@i
SELECT @@i=@@i-1
IF @@i<1 BEGIN BREAK END
SELECT @@c=SUBSTRING(@string,@@i,1)
END
/* separate now the parts of the string */
IF @@posl>1 BEGIN SELECT @@token1=SUBSTRING(@string,1,@@posl-1) END ELSE BEGIN SELECT @@token1='' END
SELECT @@token=SUBSTRING(@string,@@posl,@@posr-@@posl+1)
IF @@posr<DATALENGTH(@string) BEGIN SELECT
@@token3=SUBSTRING(@string,@@posr+1,DATALENGTH(@string)-@@posr) END ELSE BEGIN SELECT @@token3='' END
/* increment the numeric part */
SELECT @@token=convert(varchar(255),convert(int,@@token)+1)
END ELSE BEGIN
/* no numeric part at all. start with 1 at the end */
SELECT @@token1=@string
SELECT @@token='1'
SELECT @@token3=''
END
/* recompose the string and trim to max length if necessary */
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