T-SQL - batch delimiter required

Question

I am trying to build Visual Studio solution for Azure SQL Database.

I have SQL script with CREATE TABLE and its extended attributes:

create table schema.table_name (
   table_name_Key integer not null,
   constraint PK_table_Name primary key (table_Name_Key, Some_Column)
)
go

if exists (select 1 from  sys.extended_properties
           where major_id = object_id('table_name') and minor_id = 0)
begin 
   execute sp_dropextendedproperty 'MS_Description',  
   'user', 'schema', 'table', 'table_name' ;
end 

execute sp_addextendedproperty 'MS_Description',  
   'This table will be used for ....', 
   'user', 'schema', 'table', 'table_name';
go

if exists (select 1 from sys.extended_properties p 
           where p.major_id = object_id('table_name')
             and p.minor_id = (select c.column_id from sys.columns c 
                               where c.object_id = p.major_id 
                                 and c.name = 'table_name_Key'))
begin
   execute sp_dropextendedproperty 'MS_Description', 
   'user', 'schema', 'table', 'table_name', 'column', 'table_name_Key';
end

execute sp_addextendedproperty 'MS_Description', 
   'Primary Key of table_name table',
   'user', 'schema', 'table', 'table_name', 'column', 'table_name_Key';
go

I am still getting errors when building that I am missing batch delimiter:

Error SQL71006: Only one statement is allowed per batch. A batch separator, such as 'GO', might be required between statements.

What am I missing and where? I already tried to add go after end but still error.

Answer 1

If you are using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) database projects in Visual Studio then you need to think about things differently (and work through some of the tutorials , or this one ).

Basically each object is held in a single script and you do not have to write conditional statements (like IF EXISTS... ). You simply define the object as you want it and SqlPackage.exe works out at deploy-time what the definition should be.

A simple table with one extended property:

CREATE TABLE [testSchema].[table_name] (
    [table_name_Key] INT          NOT NULL,
    [Some_Column]    VARCHAR (10) NOT NULL,
    CONSTRAINT [PK_table_Name] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([table_name_Key] ASC, [Some_Column] ASC)
);


GO
EXECUTE sp_addextendedproperty @name = N'Caption', @value = 'Some_column is a required column.', @level0type = N'SCHEMA', @level0name = N'testSchema', @level1type = N'TABLE', @level1name = N'table_name', @level2type = N'COLUMN', @level2name = N'Some_Column';

Define your table in a similar manner to above, press Build and work through the errors.