>>Hello,
>>
>>I am writing a stored procedure where the tablename in a select statement can be variable.
>>
>>In VFP I probably would use name substitution:
>>

>>lcMyTable = "Users"
>>lcUser = "Christian"
>>SELECT * FROM (lcMyTable) WHERE Username = lcUser
>>

>>
>>In SQL that approach gives me problems, it either says "Must declare the table variable" or if I used a dynamic SQL Must delcare the scalar variable". I guess there is a simple approach but I just can't figure out what is the right one.
>
>In SQL Server you must use dynamic SQL for this purpose, e.g.
>

>declare @SQL nvarchar(max)
>
>set @SQL  = 'select * from ' + quotename(@TableName) + ' where UserName = @cUser'
>
>execute sp_ExecuteSQL @SQL, N'@cUser varchar(20)', @cUser

Thanks, that looks really weird for a FoxPro guy, doesn't it? How did you ever get used to that?