dynamical tablenames

Hi all!
I am about to create a procedure which will create tables with
dynamically specified tablenames.
Something like this
DECLARE tname CHAR(30);
SET tname = GETDATE(); #or any string function
CREATE TABLE tname
(
#columns cpecification
);
But it doesn't works...Try this ...
DECLARE @.tname VARCHAR(30), @.sql VARCHAR(2000)
SET @.tname = CONVERT(CHAR(8),GETDATE(),112)-- remove the spaces
SELECT @.sql = 'CREATE TABLE dbo.##' + @.tname + ' (mycol CHAR(10))' -- needs
to be global or permenant
SELECT @.sql
EXECUTE (@.sql)
"Ilya Dyoshin" wrote:

> Hi all!
> I am about to create a procedure which will create tables with
> dynamically specified tablenames.
> Something like this
> DECLARE tname CHAR(30);
> SET tname = GETDATE(); #or any string function
> CREATE TABLE tname
> (
> #columns cpecification
> );
>
> But it doesn't works...
>|||Why would you need dynamically named and/or dynamically created objects? How
are you planning on using them?
This is possible, but hardly recommended. There are better options and if
you post more information we can help you design a much more efficient
solution.
But if you insist on creating SQL objects dynamically you should read this
great article on dynamic SQL by Erland Sommarskog:
http://www.sommarskog.se/dynamic_sql.html
ML
http://milambda.blogspot.com/