Why can't I create a view inside of a BEGIN … END block

Question

This code does not work, returning the error:

BEGIN
  CREATE VIEW [dbo].[dummy] AS SELECT 1 AS Dummy
END
GO`

Incorrect syntax near the keyword \'VIEW\'.
         


        

Answer 1

It's because CREATE VIEW must be the first statement in a batch as described in this MSDN reference.

Instead, you could do: e.g.

.....
    BEGIN 
        EXECUTE('CREATE VIEW [dbo].[dummy] AS SELECT 1 AS Dummy')
    END