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Asked: 2026-06-12T09:24:45+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Constants and Include files in TSQL I’ve been looking for a T-SQL

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Constants and Include files in TSQL

I’ve been looking for a T-SQL equivalent of the C “#include” directive. As I haven’t found, I wonder

  • Is it possible that MS did not include any sort of SQL files inclusion / joined execution
  • If not, why
  • If not, is there any better way for me to execute several SQL files at once without copy-paste or manual precompilation

For those curious of my motivations, I am writing a set of similar queries, and I find it convenient to externalize constants (from enum tables), pre-computations (making some test input tables) and parameter variables (which subsets I’m working on).

As far as I know, I can’t really use stored procedures or functions for that (And I don’t like the idea of polluting my DB with those).

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could look into executing in SQLCMD mode, either in SSMS or via sqlcmd utility (command line). There is a :r <file name> command that allows you to include external files in the current execution session. So if you included a :r my_init_script.sql near the top of your larger script it may achieve what you are after.

    Note, this is for SQL 2005 and up.

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