“could not find stored procedure”

Question

I am maintaining a classic ASP website that has a SQL Server 2005 backend. For a small piece of new functionality I wrote a stored procedure to do an insert. This is the o

Answer 1

Sometimes this can also happen when you have a stored procedure being called with parameters. For example, if you type something like:

set @runProc = 'dbo.StoredProcedure'
 exec @runProc

This will work, However:

set @runProc = 'dbo.StoredProcedure ''foods'''
exec @runProc

This will throw the error "could not find stored procedure dbo.StoredProcedure 'foods'", however this can easily be overcome with parantheses like so:

set @runProc = 'exec dbo.StoredProcedure ''foods'''
exec (@runProc)