You need to decalre MaxImageCnt as a variable, i.e. DECLARE @MaxImageCnt int You then reference it as @MaxImageCnt
Altered code below: ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.InsertImage ( @ImagePath varchar(50), @UserId varchar(10), @ImageCnt int ) AS BEGIN DECLARE @MaxImageCnt int SELECT MAX(ImageCnt) AS @MaxImageCnt FROM userImages WHERE ImagePath LIKE @ImagePath+'%' IF @MaxImageCnt!=NULL SET @[EMAIL PROTECTED] SET @[EMAIL PROTECTED](@MaxImageCnt AS varchar) INSERT UserImages (ImagePath,UserId,ImageCnt) VALUES (@ImagePath,@UserId,@ImageCnt) END On 23 Nov, 22:26, BigJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My procedure code: > > ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.InsertImage > ( > @ImagePath varchar(50), > @UserId varchar(10), > @ImageCnt int > ) > AS > BEGIN > SELECT MAX(ImageCnt) AS MaxImageCnt FROM userImages > WHERE ImagePath LIKE @ImagePath+'%' > > IF MaxImageCnt!=NULL > SET @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > SET @[EMAIL PROTECTED](MaxImageCnt AS varchar) > > INSERT UserImages (ImagePath,UserId,ImageCnt) VALUES > (@ImagePath,@UserId,@ImageCnt) > END > > My question is how do you set a variable to the result of the SELECT > query, which should be in MaxImageCnt. When I try to save this, it > tells me that the compiler is basically trying to find a column caled > MaxImageCnt, which makes sense. I guess this is a completely newie > syntactical issue, but i can't find anything on it. i know there is > also other lopsided bad syntax in this procedure too, but please > ignore that and if possible provide insight to the problem i > asked...thanks guys. > > Jon