Question

I have an issue with a my SQL query. I need to execute a SQL statement using EXEC and one of the columns is already represented with a variable and I must now put the represent the value of that column with another variable. Can this be achieved and if so, can you please suggest any other solution for this?

I found this snippet via Google. But even this doesn’t give me the desired output.

My SQL Statement:

declare @i int, @j int =10
exec sp_executesql N'select @i ='+ @j, N'@i int output', @i output
select @i

Answer 1

This works in my Sql Server 2005:

    declare @i int, @j int
    set @j =10
    declare @sql nvarchar(max)
    set @sql = 'select @i =' + str(@j)
    exec sp_executesql @sql, N'@i int output', @i output
    select @i