>>>Why do you need those single quotes on 'StockDetail' and on

'<<cIvdCode>>'

?
>>
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>uups. Did not think of that...
>
>It just looked a bit strange to me. I would normally put just table name without quotes.
>Moreover, I was expecting some error when putting quotes around table name, but this works anyway.
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>Mu bad :)
>
>I would however prefer prefer direct string construction as apposed to textmerge when it comes to constructing script code.

I prefer textmerge as it allows to write long scripts very clear and with CRLF. You can not do this with string concatenation and copy/paste the query in SSMS will be much harder.