Need to use the contents of a field in a table select

Question

Need to use the contents of a field as a table select. For example, my table (ATest) contains a field name (selection_id). The contents of the field contains a table name (selection_12345) that I need to query to obtain the contents of selection_12345. How can I pass the contents as a table name in another select?

Example:
Query --- select * from ATest

Result ---
selection_id (column)
selection_12345 (column contents)

I'm trying to do a select * from selection_12345 by passing the selection_id contents as a variable.

Answer 1

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If you only return a single row, you can set a variable like this:

DECLARE @MyVariable nvarchar(255);
SELECT @MyVariable = TableName
FROM ATest;

Then, you would have to create a dynamic T-SQL statement to execute the second query:

DECLARE @MySQL nvarchar(max);
SET @MySQL = 'SELECT * FROM ' + @MyVariable;
sp_execute @MySQL;

Those are examples. You would want to be careful to ensure you can't get SQL Injection

answered Aug 07 '12 at 07:24 PM

Grant Fritchey ♦♦
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