Question

I need to access variables in whole script that is divided to few sections by GO command. How to do that?

Below is source example (that doesn’t work):

--script info (begining of script file)  
DECLARE @ScriptCode NVARCHAR (20)  = '20120330-01'  

--some queries  
GO  

--and there I cannot use @ScriptCode variable 
INSERT INTO DBScriptsHistory(ScriptCode) VALUES(@ScriptCode)  

Answer 1

That’s correct, because variables exist only within the current batch. Assuming that you need to use the GO statement (e.g. CREATE VIEW must be the first statement in a batch), the simplest solution is probably to use sqlcmd scripting variables.