Question

I m stuck at this place. I m trying to get a single rowset value in a variable.

DECLARE @last_timestamp as varchar;
SET @last_timestamp = SELECT MAX(modify_timestamp) FROM dbo.table1
PRINT @last_timestamp

It is returning the below error

Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 2
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'SELECT'.

Is Cursor the only solution to this problem. Any help would be helpful ?

Answer 1

Try:

DECLARE @last_timestamp as varchar;
SELECT @last_timestamp  = MAX(modify_timestamp) FROM dbo.table1
PRINT @last_timestamp

or

DECLARE @last_timestamp as varchar;
SET @last_timestamp  = (SELECT MAX(modify_timestamp) FROM dbo.table1)
PRINT @last_timestamp