I have a stored procedure that returns 80 columns, and 300 rows. I want to write a select that gets 2 of those columns. Something like

SELECT col1, col2 FROM EXEC MyStoredProc 'param1', 'param2'

When I used the above syntax I get the error:

"Invalid Column Name".

I know the easiest solution would be to change the stored procedure, but I didn't write it, and I can't change it.

Is there any way to do what I want?

• I could make a temp table to put the results in, but because there are 80 columns so I would need to make an 80 column temp table just to get 2 columns. I wanted to avoid tracking down all the columns that are returned.

• I tried using WITH SprocResults AS .... as suggested by Mark, but I got 2 errors
  

  Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'EXEC'.
  Incorrect syntax near ')'.

• I tried declaring a table variable and I got the following error
  

  Insert Error: Column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition

• If I try
  SELECT * FROM EXEC MyStoredProc 'param1', 'param2'
  I get the error :
  

  Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'exec'.

This isn't working in SQL Server 2008:

ALTER TABLE Employee ALTER COLUMN CityBorn SET DEFAULT 'SANDNES'

The error is:

Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'SET'.

What am I doing wrong?

The SQL query that I have used is :

ALTER TABLE oldtable RENAME TO newtable;

But, it gives me an error.

Server: Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'TO'.

I want to create a table from select query result in SQL Server, I tried

create table temp AS select.....

but I got an error

Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'AS'

Can anyone tell me where is the mistake in the following query

ALTER TABLE Countries
ADD ( 
HasPhotoInReadyStorage  bit,
 HasPhotoInWorkStorage  bit,
 HasPhotoInMaterialStorage bit,
 HasText  bit);

ALTER TABLE Regions
ADD ( HasPhotoInReadyStorage  bit,
 HasPhotoInWorkStorage  bit,
 HasPhotoInMaterialStorage bit
 HasText  bit);

ALTER TABLE Provinces
ADD ( HasPhotoInReadyStorage  bit,
 HasPhotoInWorkStorage  bit,
 HasPhotoInMaterialStorage bit
 HasText  bit);


ALTER TABLE Cities
ADD ( HasPhotoInReadyStorage  bit,
 HasPhotoInWorkStorage  bit,
 HasPhotoInMaterialStorage bit
 HasText  bit);

Alter table Hotels
Add 
{
 HasPhotoInReadyStorage  bit,
 HasPhotoInWorkStorage  bit,
 HasPhotoInMaterialStorage bit,
 HasHotelPhotoInReadyStorage  bit,
 HasHotelPhotoInWorkStorage  bit,
 HasHotelPhotoInMaterialStorage bit,
 HasReporterData  bit,
 HasMovieInReadyStorage  bit,
 HasMovieInWorkStorage  bit,
 HasMovieInMaterialStorage bit
};

I get the following errors:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 2
Incorrect syntax near '('.
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 9
Incorrect syntax near '('.
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 15
Incorrect syntax near '('.
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 22
Incorrect syntax near '('.
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 29
Incorrect syntax near '{'.