SQL Server variable scope in a stored procedure

Question

I would like to declare a variable within an if/else statement in a SQL Server stored procedure. I understand that this is fairly impossible because SQL Server doesn\'t do m

Answer 1

is there some reason why you can't do :

declare @bob int 
if exists(x) 
begin   set @bob = 1 end 
else 
begin  set @bob = 2 end