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From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at peppler dot org>
Subject: Re: SQL failing
Date: Jul 14 2003 6:20PM
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 17:12, Sabherwal, Balvinder (MBS) wrote:
> I have a script which connects to the Sybase database and create a work
> table and has a check to see if the tables exists, drop it. The drop
> statement is as below
>
> $tblchk="if object_id(\"dbo.LatencyArch_staging\") is not null
> begin
> drop table $opt_D\.\.$tbl
> end
> ";
>
>
>
> For some reason, the SQL gets executed and its not dropping the table. If I
> print $tblchk from the debug mode and execute the generated sql from isql,
> it works fine. What am I missing??
I don't know - I assume that $opt_D and $tbl are correct, and that $tbl
is LatencyArch_staging.
I would put a PRINT statement in the begin/end block to make sure that
that part of the SQL block is actually executed.
Michael
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