Invalid Object error in Stored Procedure

Question


Royal Thomas

Answer 1

It was a bit of a puzzler, but here is a repro that demonstrates Thomas's problem:
CREATE USER svante WITHOUT LOGIN WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA = guest
ALTER ROLE db_owner ADD MEMBER svante
go
EXECUTE AS USER = 'svante'
go
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.testis AS
SELECT @@procid AS beata INTO sture
SELECT * FROM sture
go
EXEC testis  -- Invalid object name 'sture'.
go
REVERT
go
EXEC testis -- Succede
go
DROP USER svante
DROP TABLE guest.sture 
DROP TABLE sture
DROP PROCEDURE testis
What is happening is this: In the statement
   SELECT @@procid AS beata INTO sture
the table is created in the default schema of the current user, not in the default schema of the procedure owner (which is dbo, since the procedures was created in dbo). This was certainly unexpected, at least for me.
But in
  SELECT * FROM sture
the regular rules, and here sture resolves to dbo.sture, not guest.sture.
Thomas should make sure that he uses dbo.xxxx in all his SELECT INTO statements.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]