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PRB: Error Creating Stored Procedure

Article ID: 42624

Article Last Modified on 3/2/2005

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When using the following procedure as a stored procedure:

   Create procedure workshop as
   use pubs
   select * from authors

after pressing the CTRL+E keys in Query Analyzer, the following error message is displayed:

Server: Msg 154, Level 15, State 1, Procedure workshop, Line 2 A USE DATABASE statement is not allowed in a procedure or trigger.

Deleting the USE PUBS command returns the following error message:

Server: Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Procedure workshop, Line 2 Invalid object name 'authors'.

Keywords: kbprogramming kbprb KB42624