Re: dynamic table name

[Peter Brawley]

>    DECLARE my_table CHAR(32);
>     SET my_table = UNIX_TIMESTAMP();
>
>     CREATE TABLE my_table

See the manual page for PREPARE.

PB

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Mauricio Tellez wrote:
> Hi, I'm creating a stored procedure and inside this procedure I have a
> CREATE TABLE statement, but I want to make a dynamic table for this table.
> Also, this table name is passed as a parameter for another SP, but instead
> of get the value of the parameter, I got the name of the parameter. For
> example:
>
> CREATE PROEDURE my_test_sp()
> BEGIN
>      DECLARE my_table CHAR(32);
>      SET my_table = UNIX_TIMESTAMP();
>
>      CREATE TABLE my_table (
>      id int,
>      name char(64));
>
>      call nested_sp(my_table);
> END
>
> CREATE PROCEDURE nested_sp(my_table CHAR(32))
> BEGIN
>    INSERT INTO my_table 1, 'John Doe';
> END
>
> of course nested_sp is very silly, but the idea is the same. When I run
> this, I found that there is no table name like '20080426...' but I get a
> table 'my_table', how can I fix this?
>
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