Thanks Carl, I appreciate that much tighter code. Now what I need to do is to get the results into a 2 field table where the rows are filled from the cleaned up string like so 'Row1Col, Row1Co2, Row2Col, Row2Co2, Row3Col, Row3Co2' if I am being clear. I hope. I don't know how to loop through the recordset or create the two col table inside a SP.
I really appreciate your help.
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>Good start Joe, with several ammendments. You don't need a continuation character. Also, you don't need the SELECTs on the right side of the statement and you don't need the UNION. Try this:
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>SET @ExecuteString = 'SELECT ' + REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE('?=&', '?',''), '=',',') , '&',',')
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>Carl
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