Incorrect syntax near ']'.?

Question

I have done some debugging on my sql and I cant figure out the maddening error I am getting I have narrowed it down to a couple of lines which I cant see what the problem is

Answer 1

You're missing an opening square bracket here:

... ') SELECT ' + @cols2 + ']' + ' FROM ...

Furthermore I would recommend you switch to using the QuoteName() function instead:

... ') SELECT ' + QuoteName(@cols2) + ' FROM...