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I am writting a dynamic sql to drop and create view in different database.

So I wrote:

set @CreateViewStatement = 
                '
                USE ['+ @DB +'];
                CREATE VIEW [dbo].[MyTable]
                AS

                SELECT ........something
exec (@CreateViewStatement)

It gives me error:

'CREATE VIEW' must be the first statement in a query batch.

If I remove the USE DATABASE statement it works fine, but then the database is not specify anymore....

How can I solve this problem?

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You can use nested EXEC calls. The database context changed by the USE persists to the child batch.

DECLARE @DB SYSNAME

SET @DB = 'tempdb'

DECLARE @CreateViewStatement NVARCHAR(MAX) 
SET @CreateViewStatement = '
      USE '+ QUOTENAME(@DB) +';
      EXEC(''
             CREATE VIEW [dbo].[MyTable] AS
             SELECT 1 AS [Foo]
      '')

                          '
EXEC (@CreateViewStatement)
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+1 - If you script out views using SMO this is how the framework does it as well - definitions are executed in dynamic SQL to get around the restriction – JNK♦ Feb 2 '12 at 16:44
oooh, it worked! Thanks! – King Chan Feb 2 '12 at 16:48
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@KingChan - you can both upvote and accept, FYI ;) – JNK♦ Feb 2 '12 at 16:54
@JNK +1 of course~ :) – King Chan Feb 2 '12 at 17:42
definitely worked!! although i used it, wih many variables inside the nested query so i was a headache becuz of the quote handling! great solution though ! – JulioMedina Feb 18 at 1:49
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One way I have handled when run into this case is placing GO after use statement.

set @CreateViewStatement = 
'
  USE ['+ @DB +']; GO
  CREATE VIEW [dbo].[MyTable]
  AS

  SELECT ........something'
exec (@CreateViewStatement)
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Just so you know, GO statment won't runs in exec – King Chan Feb 2 '12 at 17:44
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This won't work in the context of dynamic SQL. GO is a batch delimiter in the client tools not a TSQL keyword. – Martin Smith Feb 2 '12 at 17:45

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