I´m trying to create a VIEW in SQL Server 2005.

The SQL code is working as such (I´m using it in VS2008), but in SQL Server I´m unable to save it, as error message "Declare the scalar variable @StartDate" and "Declare the scalar variable @EndDate" pops up.

Here is the code:

WITH Calendar AS (SELECT     CAST(@StartDate AS datetime) AS Date
     UNION ALL
     SELECT     DATEADD(d, 1, Date) AS Expr1
     FROM         Calendar AS Calendar_1
     WHERE     (DATEADD(d, 1, Date) < @EndDate))
    SELECT     C.Date, C2.Country, COALESCE (SUM(R.[Amount of people per day needed]), 0) AS [Allocated testers]
     FROM         Calendar AS C CROSS JOIN
                            dbo.Country AS C2 LEFT OUTER JOIN
                            dbo.Requests AS R ON C.Date BETWEEN R.[Start date] AND R.[End date] AND R.CountryID = C2.CountryID
     GROUP BY C.Date, C2.Country

And my question is of course - exactly how should I declare them?

I tried to put the following first in the code:

DECLARE @StartDate smalldatetime
DECLARE @EndDate smalldatetime

But that didn´t do the trick, just as I expected - it only gave me another pop-up message:

"The Declare cursor SQL construct or statement is not supported."

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