Database Name as a Parameter

Hello folks,

I am in the process of writing a stored proc that selects data from a set of tables. Since this procedure needs to run in multiple databases, I wanted to store database names in a table and have the proc. retrieve the names dynamically.

In short, I want to execute the following stt:
select 'Conversion 1,
'Query 1',
(select count(*) from @.testDB.student)

(in this case @.testDB could be "parul1.dbo" or "parul2.dbo" etc.

How can this functionality be achieved through dynamic SQL?

Thanks so much!
-Paruldeclare @.sql nvarchar(1000),@.testDB varchar(100)
set @.testDB='parul1'
set @.sql='select ''Conversion 1'',''Query 1'',count(*) from '+@.testDB+'.dbo.student'

print @.sql

exec sp_executesql @.sql|||Thanks, that worked!
I have another question - how can i put the results from "EXEC sp_executesql @.SQLSTRING" into a temp table?

How can I get this to work?
Insert #temp1
select @.stage,
'Query 1',
@.sqlStringQuery1,
EXEC sp_executesql @.sqlStringQuery1

Thanks so much!

-Parul|||create a procedure which takes in DB name as parameter...do the select and the insert inside the procedure.|||Thanks, do you have sample code?|||Insert JUST the EXEC into a temp table first. Then, insert into a second temp table the results of that table joined to whatever else you need to insert.

Database Level Triggers in SQL 2000? File Writing?

Hello,

Is there any ability to do database-level triggers in SQL 2000? I have a SQL 2000 database, and I was asked if we could create a trigger that whenever anyone touches the data in a database, to create an entry in an event log? If not, I have a main table I can put a trigger on; however, my question is how do you write to a file in a trigger as well?

Thanks.

No, you need to do it individually table by table.

The same in SQL 2005.

Also think how your 'log' table will look like as layout of all tables is different

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bmains:

s there any ability to do database-level triggers in SQL 2000?

I'm afraid the database level triggers are introduced in SQL 2005 only. So, you can't create a database level trigger in SQL 2000. See if below link can be useful.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/sqlserver/sql2kaud.mspx

Hope this will help.