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CRM 4.0: Custom Report -> Incorrect syntax near ...

The customer had an issue with a custom CRM 4.0 report.
It seems this error occured now because the SQL Server run with 2008 instead of 2005 or the report indeed had a bug. (Thanks to SQL Profiler, I found it.)

The customer had this error coming up:
Query execution failed for dataset '....'.
Incorrect syntax near '20140913'

After analysing the report XML I figured out the problem:

DECLARE @SQL AS NVARCHAR(MAX)
SET @SQL = '
SELECT
CRMAF_FilteredAccount.accountid,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.firstname,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.jobtitle,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.lastname,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.telephone1
FROM (' + @CRM_FilteredAccount + ') AS CRMAF_FilteredAccount INNER JOIN FilteredContact AS CRMAF_FilteredContact
ON CRMAF_FilteredAccount.accountid = CRMAF_FilteredContact.parentcustomerid
ORDER BY CRMAF_FilteredContact.lastname'
EXEC(@SQL)

The red must be replaced with:

DECLARE @SQL AS NVARCHAR(MAX)
SET @SQL = '
SELECT
CRMAF_FilteredAccount.accountid,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.firstname,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.jobtitle,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.lastname,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.telephone1
FROM (' + @CRM_FilteredAccount + ') AS CRMAF_FilteredAccount INNER JOIN (' + @CRM_FilteredContact + ') AS CRMAF_FilteredContact
ON CRMAF_FilteredAccount.accountid = CRMAF_FilteredContact.parentcustomerid
ORDER BY CRMAF_FilteredContact.lastname'
EXEC(@SQL)

And I had to insert the appropriate and equivalent new report and query parameter for it.

SQL Profiler Output:
exec sp_executesql N'declare @binUserGuid varbinary(128)
           declare @userGuid uniqueidentifier
           select @userGuid = N''{2691f84a-3327-e111-926d-001e0bd1e5c0}''
           set @binUserGuid = cast(@userGuid as varbinary(128))
           set context_info @binUserGuid
           --DECLARE @CRM_FilteredAccount AS NVARCHAR(MAX)
--SET @CRM_FilteredAccount = ''select * from filteredaccount''
DECLARE @SQL AS NVARCHAR(MAX)
SET @SQL = ''
SELECT
CRMAF_FilteredAccount.accountid,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.firstname,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.jobtitle,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.lastname,
CRMAF_FilteredContact.telephone1
FROM ('' + @CRM_FilteredAccount + '') AS CRMAF_FilteredAccount INNER JOIN (select contact0.* from FilteredContact as contact0 where ( contact0.modifiedonutc >= ''20140913 22:00:00'' and contact0.modifiedonutc <= ''20141014 12:05:42'' )) as CRMAF_FilteredContact
ON CRMAF_FilteredAccount.accountid = CRMAF_FilteredContact.parentcustomerid
ORDER BY CRMAF_FilteredContact.lastname''
EXEC(@SQL)',N'@CRM_FilteredAccount nvarchar(156)',@CRM_FilteredAccount=N'select account0.* from FilteredAccount as account0 where ( account0.modifiedonutc >= ''20140913 22:00:00'' and account0.modifiedonutc <= ''20141014 12:05:42'' )'


The important difference is how the parameters will be replaced in the final query (red).

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