Question

I’ve created a table valued function:

CREATE FUNCTION TestFunction
(   
    @username VARCHAR(80)
)
RETURNS TABLE 
AS
RETURN 
(
    SELECT 0 AS TestValue
)

Then try to call it as so:

SELECT TestValue
FROM dbo.TestFunction(SYSTEM_USER)

but get the error:

Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘SYSTEM_USER’

I’ve even tried making this a table valued function which is not inline, but I get the same error.

Am I missing something? Why am I getting this error?

Answer 1

On my 2k8 server I can only reproduce that with SQL Server 2000 (80) Compatibility level set, check the level of your 2005 database.

Meantime you can;

declare @su varchar(30) = SYSTEM_USER
select * from dbo.TestFunction(@su)