hi all. i am new in these forums as well as in stored procedure programing. i was using ms access upto now so iam basically familiary with sql statements. here is my problem. I have this STORED PROCEDURE but when i try to save it i get this error Error 170: Line 13: Incorrect syntax near '>'. Anyone knows how can i use the > in a stored procedure as this one below.CREATE PROCEDURE qry_investment_bond (@from_date as smalldatetime ) ASEXEC ('DELETE FROM dbo.tbl_tmp_investment')INSERT INTO dbo.tbl_tmp_investment (temp_ev_ccy, temp_ca_activ, temp_ca_astype, temp_ca_acct_no, temp_ca_asset, temp_ca_balance, temp_ca_bal_fx, temp_COUNTRY, temp_issuer, temp_issuer_type, temp_FLOATING, temp_BOND_PD_RA, temp_BOND_PD_ST, temp_BOND_PD_EN, temp_LI_PERIOD_, temp_LI_PERIOD2, temp_LI_PERIOD5, temp_MATURITY, temp_date, temp_date_flag)SELECT dbo.tbl_investment.EV_CCY, dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ACTIV, dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ASTYPE, dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ACCT_NO, dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ASSET, dbo.tbl_investment.CA_BALANCE, dbo.tbl_investment.CA_BAL_FX, dbo.asDump.COUNTRY, dbo.tbl_issuer.issuer, dbo.tbl_issuer.issuer_type, dbo.asDump.FLOATING, dbo.asDump.BOND_PD_RA, dbo.asDump.BOND_PD_ST, dbo.asDump.BOND_PD_EN, dbo.asDump.LI_PERIOD_, dbo.asDump.LI_PERIOD2, dbo.asDump.LI_PERIOD5, dbo.asDump.MATURITY, @from_date, @from_date > dbo.asDump.BOND_PD_ST And @from_date <= dbo.asDump.BOND_PD_ENFROM dbo.asDump INNER JOIN dbo.tbl_investment ON dbo.asDump.ASSET = dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ASSET INNER JOIN dbo.tbl_issuer ON dbo.asDump.ISSUER = dbo.tbl_issuer.issuerWHERE (dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ACTIV = 'TRD' OR dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ACTIV = 'LPTRD' OR dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ACTIV = 'NTRD' OR dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ACTIV = 'ORG' OR dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ACTIV = 'LPORG' OR dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ACTIV = 'NORG' OR dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ACTIV = 'AFS' OR dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ACTIV = 'NAFS' OR dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ACTIV = 'LPAFS') AND (dbo.tbl_investment.CA_ASTYPE = 'BOND') /* SET NOCOUNT ON */ RETURN GOanyway i know this can be done in ms access but i am not sure in a stored procedure. i googled it a lot but no lucky untill now. any help will be appriciated.thanks