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Asked: 2026-05-11T13:44:39+00:00

Sorry everyone. It appears that I am a dumbass! The query works fine when

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Sorry everyone. It appears that I am a dumbass! The query works fine when I run it against the live database versus my test database…gotta pay more attention to that stuff!

I am having a problem with the statement shown below. It works fine if I run it against one database (sans the DBCATALOG.dbo), so no problem there. When I try running the statement as is, I get an incorrect syntax near ‘<’. I also tried using a tool to create a union for all of our databases (see second statement). This results in an invalid object name error (Invalid object name ‘TF7-User-Demo-ScheduledRestore-03.dbo.LinkedDocumentFolderTable’, Invalid object name ‘TF7-TestDatabase-ScheduledRestore.dbo.LinkedDocumentFolderTable’, etc.). It seems to be tied to the .[dbo], but I just don’t know what causes the problem. I can’t find anything in the book stating a count can’t be performed across multiple databases….

SELECT CNT=COUNT(*) FROM <DBCATALOG>.[dbo].[LinkedDocumentFolderTable] WHERE IsUnmanagedFolder = 1   SELECT 'TF7-User-Demo-ScheduledRestore-03' AS DBCatalog, * FROM(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM [TF7-User-Demo-ScheduledRestore-03].[dbo].[LinkedDocumentFolderTable] WHERE IsUnmanagedFolder = 1)rsOne  UNION ALL  SELECT 'TF7-TestDatabase-ScheduledRestore' AS DBCatalog, * FROM(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM [TF7-TestDatabase-ScheduledRestore].[dbo].[LinkedDocumentFolderTable] WHERE IsUnmanagedFolder = 1)rsOne
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  1. Your syntax seems to be weird. Try next:

    SELECT 'TF7-User-Demo-ScheduledRestore-03' AS DBCatalog, COUNT(*)  FROM [TF7-User-Demo-ScheduledRestore-03].[dbo].[LinkedDocumentFolderTable]  WHERE IsUnmanagedFolder = 1

    Also do you have all neccessary permissions set? (I’d better not ask, do you have such databases like TF7-User-Demo-ScheduledRestore-03 on same server present at all?)

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