Agreed. Just wanted to inject some additional potentially useful info regarding the issue. I'm always looking to pick up tidbits on things I didn't know about. Can be useful down the road. :-)

Bill

>Hey, Bill,
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>Thanks for the info. That's correct, as BOL states...the scope of local (user-defined) variables is limited to a batch, and cannot be referenced after a GO command. And as Magnus pointed out, all local variables would go out of scope.
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>At the risk of repetition, I think Dan LeClair provided the best advice on this.
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>Kevin