Comments on: SQL SERVER – Explanation SQL Command GO

By: Nikash

Nikash — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:10:31 +0000

–(Procedure ‘abc’ is actually exist ) ,I want to alter the proc if it exist
–so i write the below code ,But it fails
–How to correct this and what is the problem with this .

PRINT ”
PRINT ‘Start of script (SP)!’

IF EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM sys.sysobjects WHERE name = ‘abc’ AND type = ‘P’)
BEGIN
SET ANSI_NULLS ON

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON

Alter procedure [dbo].[abc]
as
begin
select * from tblParty
end

PRINT ”
PRINT ‘End of script (SP)!’
END

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[…] Explanation SQL Command GO GO is not a Transact-SQL statement; it is often used in T-SQL code. Go causes all statements from the beginning of the script or the last GO statement (whichever is closer) to be compiled into one execution plan and sent to the server independent of any other batches. SQL Server utilities interpret GO as a signal that they should send the current batch of Transact-SQL statements to an instance of SQL Server. The current batch of statements is composed of all statements entered since the last GO, or since the start of the ad hoc session or script if this is the first GO. […]

By: Jeremias Nuñez

Jeremias Nuñez — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:24:20 +0000

you can also use GO with an int parameter:

INSERT INTO mytable DEFAULT VALUES
GO 10

that will insert 10 rows into ‘mytable’

By: moheeb

moheeb — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:21:02 +0000

how many other statements we are using that are not actually TSQL statement?

By: Andreas Wawa

Andreas Wawa — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:32:57 +0000

Hi Pinal,
“go” is also very tricky!
Check this:
Domain\User doesn’t eixists on the Server, so I will catch the error and go on with the rest of the scirpt…
If I let “go” in the TRY-Block I still get an error:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 6
Incorrect syntax near ‘sysadmin’.
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 2
Incorrect syntax near ‘BEGIN’.

But when I comment “go” out it works just fine!

USE [master]
go
BEGIN TRY
if not exists(select loginname from master.dbo.syslogins where name = ‘Domain\User’)
begin
CREATE LOGIN [Domain\User] FROM WINDOWS WITH DEFAULT_DATABASE=[master]
end
EXEC master..sp_addsrvrolemember @loginame = N’Domain\User’, @rolename = N’sysadmin’
go
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
– select ‘CATCH’
END CATCH
–do next stuff

Keep up your good work!
Andreas

By: guitaristed

guitaristed — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:37:02 +0000

Keep up the good work…Great site

By: Vishal Tile

Vishal Tile — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:20:59 +0000

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By: Dinesh Kumar

Dinesh Kumar — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:40:52 +0000

the above sp is not working properly… anyone help me…

By: Dinesh Kumar

Dinesh Kumar — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:40:19 +0000

alter PROCEDURE Base_Sp_InsertFieldDisplayOrder
(
@Template_No varchar(50),
@Field_ID int,
@DisplayOrder int,
@OrgName varchar(50)
)
as
declare @sql1 nvarchar(4000)
set @sql1=”
set @sql1=’
aaa:
if exists(select Field_Id from ‘+ @OrgName +’wdt_template_fields where template_no=’ +convert(varchar(50),@Template_No) + ‘ and DisplayOrder=’ + convert(varchar(50),@DisplayOrder) +’)
begin
declare @DisplayOrder int
set @DisplayOrder=0;
set @DisplayOrder = ‘ + convert(varchar(50),(@DisplayOrder + 1)) + ‘
goto aaa
end
else
begin
update ‘+ @OrgName +’wdt_template_fields set DisplayOrder=’ +convert(varchar(50),@DisplayOrder)+’ where template_no=’ + convert(varchar(50),@Template_No) +’ and Field_id= ‘ +convert(varchar(50),@Field_ID) +’;
update ‘+ @OrgName +’wdt_template_properties set DisplayOrder=’ +convert(varchar(50),@DisplayOrder)+’ where template_no=’ + convert(varchar(50),@Template_No) +’ and Field_id= ‘ +convert(varchar(50),@Field_ID) +’;
update ‘+ @OrgName +’wdt_template_field_access_rights set DisplayOrder=’ +convert(varchar(50),@DisplayOrder)+’ where template_no=’ + convert(varchar(50),@Template_No) +’ and Field_id= ‘ +convert(varchar(50),@Field_ID) +’;

end’

print @sql1
–EXEC sp_executesql @sql1

By: kalidoss

kalidoss — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:46:39 +0000

hi sir,
its very usefull for me for your articles…..

By: ElMatador

ElMatador — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:26:06 +0000

Today I had a problem where we executed a sql script that included the following:

1. Use PaceFSdB
Go

2. If the procedure exists already Drop it.
Go

3. Create The Procedure

4. Grant Execute Permissions on the newly created Procedure.
Go

The problem:

Number 4 above would never execute. The Proc did not have execute permissions granted to dbml.

Notice on Number 3 above how we mistakenly omitted a GO statement after creating the procedure, which somehow was not executing Number 4 above correctly.

Why is this?

Thank you for all you informative posts.

ElMatador

By: masterpiecebeta2

masterpiecebeta2 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:28:29 +0000

simply understanable

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:37:54 +0000

Are GOs implicit Commits? If I put a transaction around my script and hit an error, I thought it would rollback. But it doesn’t. If I remove all my GOs then any schema changes I make in my script aren’t accessible (meaning, say, if I created a table then I can’t insert into it) so I can’t run the sql I want to. I feel like I’m between a rock and hard place.

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By: krr

krr — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:02:42 +0000

create table atable

DECLARE @i int
SET @i=1
while @i<=100
begin
insert atable default values
go
set @i=@i+1
end
select * from atable

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:24:24 +0000

Is there a way to determine which iteration of the batch is running when using GO [Count] to execute a batch multiple times? I would like to loop through a batch and pass the batch number to a stored procedure called within the batch. Is this possible?

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