OPENROWSET does not accept variables for its arguments (SQL Server)

If you’re trying to use OPENROWSET to run an ad hoc distributed query in SQL Server, but you keep getting an “incorrect syntax” error, and you just can’t see anything wrong with your syntax, it could be that you’re trying to use a variable for one of the arguments.

As mentioned in the title of this post, OPENROWSET does not accept variables for its arguments.

If you’re using variables as arguments, try changing these to string literals.

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How to Fix “Procedure expects parameter ‘@statement’ of type ‘ntext/nchar/nvarchar’.” Error in SQL Server

It’s quite easy to encounter error Msg 214, Level 16 when executing stored procedures such as sp_executesql or sp_describe_first_result_set.

Fortunately it’s easy to fix too!

The most common reason for getting this error is that you forgot to prefix your string with N.

Therefore, to fix this issue, try prefixing your string with N.

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Fix “index name must be a string” when Dropping Multiple Indexes in MongoDB

If you encounter the “index name must be a string” error when dropping multiple indexes in MongoDB, it’s probably because you’re passing the specifications document instead of the name.

When you use the dropIndexes() method or the dropIndexes command to drop multiple indexes, you need to pass the index names (not the specifications documents) in an array.

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