Let's say you've developed a stored procedure that assigns a count value to a variable which looks like this: SELECT @HasDefaultShipTo = count(*) FROM StakeHolderLoc_Assoc WHERE assoc.StakeHldrID = @StkhldrID When you execute to compile you will see the error: Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure MetroDevETL_1, Line 80 The multi-part identifier "assoc.StakeHldrID" could not be bound. The reason this error appears is because you have forgotten to associate/bind the table to "assoc". The corrected ......