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acesover
Starting Member

15 Posts

Posted - 2014-04-11 : 21:12:20

I get the following errors when I run the block of code below, but if I run the EXEC statement on it's own, no error. Also, the database does get deleted. Any ideas? Thanks.

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 3
Incorrect syntax near 'WSS_Content_1'.
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near 'END

IF EXISTS( SELECT name FROM master.sys.databases WHERE NAME = N'WSS_CONTENT_1')
BEGIN
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_database_backuphistory @database_name = N'WSS_Content_1'
GO
USE [master]
GO
DROP DATABASE [WSS_Content_1]
GO
END

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2014-04-12 : 04:58:34

You can't wrap GO in T-SQL code. They are batch separators.

IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM master.sys.databases WHERE NAME = N'WSS_CONTENT_1')
	BEGIN
		EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_database_backuphistory @database_name = N'WSS_Content_1';
		EXEC ('USE [master]; DROP DATABASE [WSS_Content_1];');
	END

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acesover
Starting Member

15 Posts

Posted - 2014-04-14 : 11:10:45

That worked. Thanks SwePeso.

Dan

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