Ok, I'm trying to write a query in a stored procedure in SQL Server 2000. Because some of the parts of the query vary based on certain situations I construct a string that contains the query and ...

Even though the SQL value is a string, SQL Server executes the string as if it is SQL code. Transact SQL, or T-SQL, provides you with the language to create the dynamic code.

I would think that it should work fine with commas, if it were between a pair of apostrophes SQL should know that it is part of a string. Hell, maybe that really is the way that it works, and I ...