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Creating Tables in a Stored Procedure

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Question:
Can I create a table in a stored procedure named from a parameter?

Answer:
You can dynamically create tables with variables, but you need to create a string and use the EXEC function like this:

DECLARE @TableName varchar(255)SET @TableName = 'TestTable'EXEC ('CREATE TABLE ' + @TableName + 
'([OrderID] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL , 
[Description] [varchar] (255))' )

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