Hi David,

Take a look at EXECUTE T-SQl command and sp_executesql system stored procedure in BOL.

>I am attempting to write a tsql script that will replicate a given operation across all databases on a given sql server (they all have the same tables, sp's etc). So far, I have written the code below. But I don't know of a way to reference a variable name in a tsql statement, or perform the equivalent of macro substition in vfp
>For example, for each database in the schema, I want to be able to 'use it', and then do some further operation on it, like create a stored procedure. But the code doesnt work. In the code below the USE statement (which is commented out) doesn't work, nor does the statement:
>select * from @ccatlogname.archived
>
>Is this possible in tsql?
>
>TIA
>
>
>
>
>declare @cCatalogName char(100)
>
>declare dblist scroll cursor
>for
>select catalog_name from master.information_schema.schemata
>
>OPEN dblist
>
>
>
>FETCH NEXT FROM dblist
>INTO @cCatalogName
>print @ccatalogname
>WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
>BEGIN
> FETCH NEXT FROM dblist
> INTO @cCatalogName
> SET @ccatalogname=rtrim(@ccatalogname)
> print @ccatalogname
>
> /*use @ccatalogname */
> select * from @ccatlogname.archived
>END
>
>CLOSE dblist
>deallocate dblist