Comments on: SQL SERVER – Dynamic Case Statement – FIX : ERROR 156 : Incorrect syntax near the keyword

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[...] Dynamic Case Statement – FIX : ERROR 156 : Incorrect syntax near the keyword This blog post explains a quick resolutions about how to resolve the issue when there is Dynamic Case Statement in the query. [...]

By: sujatha

sujatha — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:39:07 +0000

Given question: supplier supplying only part s1

Supplier part
p1 s1
p1 s2
p2 s2
p3 s3
p3 s4
p4 s1
p4 s3
p5 s5

Answer which i did as show below.
I have created table ‘test’ and the query as shown below-

select supplier
from test
where part=’s1′and supplier not in (select supplier
from test
where part!=’s1′)

i want the still optimised answer.plz anyone help me.

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:58:07 +0000

Remove Values keyword and Opening and Closing bracket of the SELECT statement

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:56:22 +0000

Can you post the full code you used?

By: tushar

tushar — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:39:42 +0000

DESC my_contact;

ERROR:-
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘DESC’.

By: Adars

Adars — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:02:16 +0000

while trying to execute the following code
INSERT INTO [OPNSDATA].[dbo].[OPSDATA]
([POD_NO]
,[IOMNO]

,[IOMDT]

,[IOMDESTN]

,[IOMWT]
)
VALUES
( SELECT TRACKBASE.DBO.IOMMAST.POD_NO,TRACKBASE.DBO.IOMMAST.IOMNO,TRACKBASE.DBO.IOMMAST.SYS_DT AS IOMDT,TRACKBASE.DBO.IOMMAST.[WEIGHT] AS IOMWT,TRACKBASE.DBO.IOMMAST.DESTN AS IOMDESTN FROM TRACKBASE.DBO.IOMMAST WHERE TRACKBASE.DBO.IOMMAST.SYS_DT=DATEADD(“DAY”,-2,CONVERT(SMALLDATETIME,CONVERT( VARCHAR(12) ,GETDATE(),101))) AND TRACKBASE.DBO.IOMMAST.POD_NO LIKE ‘BLR%’)
GO
i got the error as follows
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 12
Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘SELECT’.
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 12
Incorrect syntax near ‘)’.

can you help me

thanks

By: Allan Svelmoe Hansen

Allan Svelmoe Hansen — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:43:43 +0000

Simply send the integer value (1 for asc and -1 for desc) down to the query instead of a text string, then you can use that value to multiply without ever using a case in the order by.