EXEC stored procedure

I have a stored procedure that creates temp tables. It has two parameters,
@.tablename and @.type. I execute it with the following command.
EXEC _sp_CreateTempTable 'TableA', 'T'
With these parameters, this will create a temp table named ##TMP_TableA
based on the original table TableA.
The problem is when I run this on one of our servers it works and when I run
it on another I get the following error.
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near ','.
Help!
DaveCan you post the proc?
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Hope this helps.
Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP
"DaveF" <dave@.aol.com> wrote in message news:5Ingh.8974$495.126@.trnddc06...
>I have a stored procedure that creates temp tables. It has two parameters,
>@.tablename and @.type. I execute it with the following command.
> EXEC _sp_CreateTempTable 'TableA', 'T'
> With these parameters, this will create a temp table named ##TMP_TableA
> based on the original table TableA.
> The problem is when I run this on one of our servers it works and when I
> run it on another I get the following error.
> Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
> Incorrect syntax near ','.
> Help!
> Dave
>|||Unfortunately not. It is proprietary information.
Do you think the error is coming from within the executed proc?
Dave
"Dan Guzman" <guzmanda@.nospam-online.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Can you post the proc?
> --
> Hope this helps.
> Dan Guzman
> SQL Server MVP
> "DaveF" <dave@.aol.com> wrote in message
> news:5Ingh.8974$495.126@.trnddc06...
>>I have a stored procedure that creates temp tables. It has two
>>parameters, @.tablename and @.type. I execute it with the following command.
>> EXEC _sp_CreateTempTable 'TableA', 'T'
>> With these parameters, this will create a temp table named ##TMP_TableA
>> based on the original table TableA.
>> The problem is when I run this on one of our servers it works and when I
>> run it on another I get the following error.
>> Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
>> Incorrect syntax near ','.
>> Help!
>> Dave
>|||> Do you think the error is coming from within the executed proc?
Yes. I suspect the proc is executing a dynamic SQL statement (since you are
passing the table name parameter) and that's where the error is.
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Hope this helps.
Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP
"DaveF" <dave@.aol.com> wrote in message news:6Ungh.9006$495.7049@.trnddc06...
> Unfortunately not. It is proprietary information.
> Do you think the error is coming from within the executed proc?
> Dave
> "Dan Guzman" <guzmanda@.nospam-online.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:edQytE$HHHA.420@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Can you post the proc?
>> --
>> Hope this helps.
>> Dan Guzman
>> SQL Server MVP
>> "DaveF" <dave@.aol.com> wrote in message
>> news:5Ingh.8974$495.126@.trnddc06...
>>I have a stored procedure that creates temp tables. It has two
>>parameters, @.tablename and @.type. I execute it with the following
>>command.
>> EXEC _sp_CreateTempTable 'TableA', 'T'
>> With these parameters, this will create a temp table named ##TMP_TableA
>> based on the original table TableA.
>> The problem is when I run this on one of our servers it works and when I
>> run it on another I get the following error.
>> Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
>> Incorrect syntax near ','.
>> Help!
>> Dave
>>
>|||I have a solution for you but unfortunately can't post it because it's
proprietary.
Just kidding. Try this and see if it works any better:
EXEC _sp_CreateTempTable @.tablename = 'TableA', @.type = 'T'
Make sure the SP is the same version (accepts the same # of parameters) on
both servers.
"DaveF" <dave@.aol.com> wrote in message news:5Ingh.8974$495.126@.trnddc06...
>I have a stored procedure that creates temp tables. It has two parameters,
>@.tablename and @.type. I execute it with the following command.
> EXEC _sp_CreateTempTable 'TableA', 'T'
> With these parameters, this will create a temp table named ##TMP_TableA
> based on the original table TableA.
> The problem is when I run this on one of our servers it works and when I
> run it on another I get the following error.
> Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
> Incorrect syntax near ','.
> Help!
> Dave
>|||Thanks for the idea but that didn't work.
I decided that since it worked on one machine and not the other that I would
compare Management Studio options and sure enough I found a difference. I
made the change and the error went away. Don't ask me why this particular
change fixed it because I don't know why.
Options-->Query Execution-->SQL Server-->Advanced
check SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL
Dave
"Mike C#" <xyz@.xyz.com> wrote in message
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>I have a solution for you but unfortunately can't post it because it's
>proprietary.
> Just kidding. Try this and see if it works any better:
> EXEC _sp_CreateTempTable @.tablename = 'TableA', @.type = 'T'
> Make sure the SP is the same version (accepts the same # of parameters) on
> both servers.
> "DaveF" <dave@.aol.com> wrote in message
> news:5Ingh.8974$495.126@.trnddc06...
>>I have a stored procedure that creates temp tables. It has two
>>parameters, @.tablename and @.type. I execute it with the following command.
>> EXEC _sp_CreateTempTable 'TableA', 'T'
>> With these parameters, this will create a temp table named ##TMP_TableA
>> based on the original table TableA.
>> The problem is when I run this on one of our servers it works and when I
>> run it on another I get the following error.
>> Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
>> Incorrect syntax near ','.
>> Help!
>> Dave
>|||"DaveF" <dave@.aol.com> wrote in message news:i2Hgh.51$hy6.13@.trnddc05...
> Thanks for the idea but that didn't work.
> I decided that since it worked on one machine and not the other that I
> would compare Management Studio options and sure enough I found a
> difference. I made the change and the error went away. Don't ask me why
> this particular change fixed it because I don't know why.
> Options-->Query Execution-->SQL Server-->Advanced
> check SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL
Sounds like there's a NULL value being concatenated into a string somewhere
in your SP, most likely in some dynamic SQL you're trying to execute. That
setting controls null concatenation in strings. When it's set to ON,
concatenating NULL to a string returns NULL. When it's set to OFF, when a
NULL is concatenated to a string it's treated like '' - an empty string.
Here's an example that shows the difference:
DECLARE @.table VARCHAR(255)
SELECT @.table = 'syscomments'
DECLARE @.sql VARCHAR(255)
SELECT @.sql = 'SELECT TOP 10 * FROM ' + @.table
SELECT 'Table: syscomments', @.sql
SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON
SELECT @.table = NULL
SELECT @.sql = 'SELECT TOP 10 * FROM ' + @.table
SELECT 'Table: NULL, CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON', @.sql
SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL OFF
SELECT @.table = NULL
SELECT @.sql = 'SELECT TOP 10 * FROM ' + @.table
SELECT 'Table: NULL, CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON', @.sql
GO
SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON
When CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL is ON, appending NULL to a string returns NULL.
SQL Server will EXEC a NULL dynamic SQL string without complaint. When
CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL is OFF, the table name in this SELECT query is
appended as an empty string which will cause an error when SQL Server tries
to execute it.
Based on what you said, it sounds like one of the dynamic SQL statements
you're trying to execute has a NULL value appended to it somewhere, and
that's causing your error when that setting is OFF. It also means that that
particular dynamic SQL statement you think is being executed is not being
executed. Might want to check all your dynamic SQL statements that should
be executing (SELECT or PRINT them out right before the EXEC statement).