Question

Does anyone know why.

CREATE PROCEDURE My_Procedure
    (@Company varchar(50))  
AS  
    SELECT PRD_DATE 
    FROM WM_PROPERTY_DATES 
    WITH (NOLOCK) 
    WHERE PRD_COMPANY = @Company 
GO

Gives me an error message in SQL management studio:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure My_Procedure, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near 'GO'.

Now, this is the last statement of a batch, maybe the last statement should not have a GO ?

Answer 1

There was a bug released in SQL Server that parses the GO statement incorrectly. I believe it was introduced when you could do GO X, and execute the batch X multiple times.

Sometimes I’ve had to add a comments section (“—“) to force the parser to terminate rather than produce a syntax error. This has been seen when I’ve had 400,000 lines in a batch of code.

Example:

PRINT “This is a test.”

GO —

PRINT “This is not a test.”

GO 5 —