https://www.adathedev.co.uk/tags/set-noexec/Recent content in SET NOEXEC on AdaTheDev BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioadathedev@gmail.com (Adrian Hills)adathedev@gmail.com (Adrian Hills)Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:31:00 +0100https://www.adathedev.co.uk/2010/07/validating-sql-query-programmatically.htmlThu, 01 Jul 2010 22:31:00 +0100adathedev@gmail.com (Adrian Hills)https://www.adathedev.co.uk/2010/07/validating-sql-query-programmatically.htmlIf you want to check the validity of a TSQL statement programmatically, you can make use of the SET NOEXEC statement. As this MSDN reference states, SET NOEXEC ON will compile the query but won’t actually execute it. This is ideal (well, nearly….) if perhaps you have a dynamically generated statement that you want to check is valid before executing it. Example time SET NOEXEC ON GO SELECT TOP * FROM sys.