Question

I want to print some dynamic query to execute a procedure on all tables in the database. This is what I’ve written so far –

EXEC SP_MSFOREACHTABLE '
    IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS 
       WHERE COLUMN_NAME="EMAIL_S" AND TABLE_NAME=PARSENAME("?",1))
    BEGIN
        PRINT ''EXEC DROPCONSTANT @TBLNAME=''+PARSENAME("?",1)
                  +'', @FLDNAME=''''EMAIL_S'''' ''
        PRINT CHAR(10)+CHAR(13)
    END
' 

The output is not what I expect it to be –

EXEC DROPCONSTANT @TBLNAME=bill, @FLDNAME='EMAIL_S'

But what I really want it –

EXEC DROPCONSTANT @TBLNAME='bill', @FLDNAME='EMAIL_S'

Answer 1

You need to add a bunch of '.

PRINT ''DROPCONSTANT @TBLNAME=''''''+PARSENAME("?",1)+'''''', @FLDNAME=''''EMAIL_S'''' ''