Assign result of dynamic sql to variable

Question

I\'m doing dynamic SQL to convert all columns in a table a string

so After after all I do

EXEC(@template); 

where @template is the

Answer 1

You could use sp_executesql instead of exec. That allows you to specify an output parameter.

declare @out_var varchar(max);
execute sp_executesql 
    N'select @out_var = ''hello world''', 
    N'@out_var varchar(max) OUTPUT', 
    @out_var = @out_var output;
select @out_var;

This prints "hello world".