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Oct 12, 2005

I am currently using a cursor to scroll through sysobjects to extract table names and then extracting relevant column names from syscolumns.

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declare Detail_Cursor cursor for
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The message I receive is "must declare variable @table".

Immediately prior to this script I printed out the result of @table which works fine so the variable obviously is declared and populated.

Can anyone let me know what I'm doing wrong or how I can get the same result.

Thanks

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Dear all,

Can someone help me with the following function? I would like to use a table name as a variable.

Thanks in advance!

CREATE FUNCTION FAC_user.Overzicht_DTe (@tabel1 as nvarchar, @proces as nvarchar, @categorie as nvarchar)
RETURNS numeric AS
BEGIN
declare @aantal numeric

if @proces = 'Inhuizen'
begin
if @categorie = 'open_op_tijd'
begin
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WHERE@tabel1.Verwerkingsdatum is null
AND @tabel1.UiterlijkeVerwDatum >= Rapportageweek.Rapportagedatum
AND @tabel1.ItemType = 'ZVHG'
AND @tabel1.ItemType = 'ZVHN'
AND @tabel1.ItemType = 'ZVIG'
AND @tabel1.ItemType = 'ZVIN'
GROUP BY@tabel1.Maand, @tabel1.Jaar)
end

if @categorie = 'open_te_laat'
begin
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FROM @tabel1, Rapportageweek
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AND @tabel1.ItemType = 'ZVHN'
AND @tabel1.ItemType = 'ZVIG'
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end

end

return @aantal

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=============================================
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
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