Question

The following code is supposed to take a string that may or may not be comma delimited and put it into a table (#tmpFullanme) that part works flawlessly. The second part is supposed return all the values that are LIKE / NOT LIKE with or without % symbols based on what is input. The error that I am getting is “the multi-part identifier “#tmpFullname.Item” could not be bound.” The best guess I have is that it may be out of scope?

DROP PROCEDURE uspJudgments; 
GO 
CREATE PROCEDURE uspJudgments 
@fullName varchar(100), @SrchCriteria1 varchar(15), @SrchCriteria2 varchar(15), @qualifier varchar(10) 
AS 
BEGIN 

SELECT * 
INTO #tmpFullname 
FROM dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(@fullName, ',') 

DECLARE @Query NVarChar(1024) 
SET @Query = 'SELECT d.*' + ' FROM defendants_ALL d, #tmpFullname' + 
' WHERE d.combined_name' + ' ' + @qualifier + ' ' + '''' + @SrchCriteria1 + '''' + ' + ' + '''' + #tmpFullname.Item + '''' + ' + ' + '''' + @SrchCriteria2 + '''' 

END 

EXEC sp_executesql @Query 
PRINT(@Query) 

IF OBJECT_ID('#tmpFullname', 'U') IS NOT NULL 
DROP TABLE #tmpFullname 

EXEC uspJudgments @qualifier = 'LIKE', @fullName = 'johnson', @SrchCriteria1 = '%', @SrchCriteria2 = '%'

Cannot get to the PRINT output as “the multi-part identifier “#tmpFullname.Item” could not be bound.” If I change #tmpFullname.Item to ‘#tmpFullname.Item it goes through and returns nothing but it shows that the query is correct minus the issue with that table.

SELECT d.* FROM defendants_ALL d, #tmpFullname WHERE d.combined_name LIKE '%' + '#tmpFullname.Item' + '%'

Please note that until I made this into a dynamic query so I can change the statement from LIKE to IN etc it worked very well.

Answer 1

I set up a full test to get the proper script to get you your desired results. I also have a SQL Fiddle showing how this works. Note You will want to run EXECUTE sp_executesql @Query inside the stored procedure

ALTER PROCEDURE uspJudgments @fullName varchar(100)
   , @SrchCriteria1 varchar(15)
   , @SrchCriteria2 varchar(15)
   , @qualifier varchar(10) 
AS 
BEGIN 

   --Simulates your split function
   SELECT *
   INTO #tmpFullName
   FROM
   (
     SELECT 'firstTest' AS Item
     UNION ALL SELECT 'secondTest'
     UNION ALL SELECT 'NotThere'
   ) AS t;

   DECLARE @Query NVARCHAR(1024);
   SELECT @Query = 'SELECT d.* '
      + ' FROM defendants_ALL d '
      + ' CROSS JOIN #tmpFullName AS t '
      + ' WHERE d.combined_name' + ' ' + @qualifier + ' '
      + '''' + @SrchCriteria1 + ''''
      + ' + ' + 't.Item' + ' + ' + '''' + @SrchCriteria2 + '''';

   EXECUTE sp_executesql @Query;

END

EXECUTE uspJudgments
@fullName = 'does not matter'
   , @SrchCriteria1 = '%'
   , @SrchCriteria2 = '%'
   , @qualifier = 'LIKE';