Question

When I ran as is, it works perfectly fine but putting this exact code into a stored procedure in SQL 2005 fails.

I get this error

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure GetCurrentLoadDate, Line 23.
Incorrect syntax near ‘@vardate’.

What is wrong with this call that it can work as a declaration and return the result set but fail if put in stored procedures?

declare @date datetime
declare @vardate varchar(10)

set @date = getDate()

set @vardate = CONVERT(varchar(10), @date ,101)

select tableloaded, insertdatetime, sourcesystemdatetime, FriendlyDescription
from dbo.tbl_loadSourcedates_dttm
where CONVERT(varchar(10), insertdatetime, 101) = @vardate

Thanks
Dhiren

Answer 1

You are probably missing the END at the end of the stored proc definition that you neglected to show us. I get the same error If I append

create proc foo
as
begin

to the beginning of your posted code.