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Any idea if it's possible to create a procedure in another database using T-SQL alone, where the name of the database is not known up front and has to be read from a table? Kind of like this example: Use [MasterDatabase] Declare @FirstDatabase nvarchar(100) Select Top 1 @FirstDatabase=[ChildDatabase] From [ChildDatabases] Declare @SQL nvarchar(4000) Declare @CRLF nvarchar(10) Set @CRLF=nchar(13)+nchar(10) Set @SQL = 'Use [+'@Firstdatabase+']'+@CRLF+ 'Go'+@CRLF+ 'Create Proc [Test] As Select 123' Exec (@SQL) See what I'm trying to do? This example fails because Go is actually not a T-SQL command but it something recognised by the query analyser/SQL management studio and produces an error. Remove the Go and it also fails because Create Proc must be the first line of the script. Arrgg!! The syntax of T-SQL doesn't allow you do things like this: Create [OtherDatabase].[dbo].[Test] Which is a shame as it would work a treat! You can do that with Select statements, shame it's inconsistent: Select * From [OtherDatabase]..[TheTable] Cheers, Rob.

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