What causes “Incorrect syntax near ” in EF Code First and SQL 2005?

Question

The examples for System.Data.Entity.Database.SqlQuery method I\'ve found appear to work well with SQL 2008 R2 but do not appear to work with SQL 2005.

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Answer 1

Solution found by @Dan himself (couldn't post due to rep)

The solution I found to this issue was simply to add the keyword "EXEC" to the query:

var myEntities = dbContext.Database.SqlQuery("EXEC GetDataFromMySp @EntityId = {0}", entityId);

This solution fixed the issue with SQL Server 2005 and still worked with SQL Server 2008 R2.