Question

DECLARE @myvariable VARCHAR(100)
SET @myvariable = 'mytext'

SELECT Name FROM Customers AS @myvariable

How would one go about doing that?

Answer to Gareth:
This would allow me to retain the original name of the column when doing something like this:

declare @myvariable varchar(20)
set @myvariable='Name'

select case @myvariable when 'Name' then Name
                        when 'Id' then Id
       end
          as Name

from Customers

Right now, when the value of @myvariable changes, the colum name won’t, but I need it to be the same as @myvariable.

Answer 1

Something like this could work

DECLARE @myvariable VARCHAR(100)
SET @myvariable = 'mytext'

DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(200)

SET @sql = 'SELECT Name AS ' + QUOTENAME(@MyVariable)  + ' FROM Customers'

EXEC sp_executesql @sql