Why I define my Carriage Returns and Line Breaks as variables in Dynamic SQL
A question I’ve been asked on several occasions is “Why use NCHAR(13) + NCHAR(10), or @CRLF in your code, and not use inline new lines in your Dynamic SQL?” So, what someone means is why do I write my dynamic statements like this: DECLARE @SQL nvarchar(MAX), @CRLF nchar(2) = NCHAR(13) + NCHAR(10); SET @SQL = N’SELECT *’ + @CRLF + N’FROM ‘ + QUOTENAME(@TableName) + N’;’; Instead of code like this: DECLARE @SQL nvarchar(MAX); SET @SQL = N’SELECT * FROM ‘ + QUOTENAME(@TableName) + N’;’; I actually have a couple of reasons for this. SQL Server is on Windows and…