Question

Hey I have a name column in my table, suppose i get have name O’Neil, when ever i read this name and insert into a linked server throught dynamic SQL I get error…How to handle this…
One method is to check if my name has a quote(‘) but I am researching if someone coul

my dynamic SQL looks like
‘name = ‘+@quote+@name+@quote

@quote is nothing but below…
set @quote = ””

thanks,
Naga

Answer 1

I guess you problem could be demonstrated with this code:

declare @Name varchar(20)
set @Name = 'O''Neil'
declare @SQL nvarchar(100)
set @SQL = 'select '+@Name
exec (@SQL)

Result: Unclosed quotation mark after the character string 'Neil'.

You can use quotename to properly add quote characters:

set @SQL = 'select '+quotename(@Name, '''')

The better alternative is to use sp_executesql and pass @Name as a parameter.

set @SQL = 'select @Name'
exec sp_executesql @SQL, N'@Name varchar(20)', @Name