Question: Last night I was writing a simple T-SQL program something like this

```
DECLARE @ROLEID AS INT

SELECT @ROLEID = [ROLE ID] FROM TBLROLE

;WITH CTE
AS
( 
    SELECT * FROM SOMETABLE
)
IF (@ROLEID  = 1) 
BEGIN
      //SOMECODE
END
ELSE IF(@ROLEID  = 2) 
BEGIN
      //SOMECODE
END
ELSE
BEGIN 
      //SOMECODE
END

```

I found after compilation that it is throwing error something like "Incorrect statement near if" 

What is wrong?

However, I did that by using some other way. But I wanted to know why it did not work!

Answer: 
A little late but I can't be the only one bumping into this.

A solution could be to create a temporary table like this:

```
-- If previous run of this query fails, the temp table will be deleted.
-- Selecting into creates the temp table which fails if it already exists
IF EXISTS(SELECT [name] FROM tempdb.sys.tables WHERE [name] like '#dtBalansOpgesteldGefilterd%') BEGIN
   DROP TABLE #temp
END;

;WITH CTE
AS
( 
    SELECT * FROM SOMETABLE
)

-- Followed by select statement as required
SELECT *
INTO #temp
FROM CTE

IF @awsome = 1
BEGIN
    SELECT 'WHATEVERYOUWANT' AS WhateverColumnNameYouWant, *
    FROM #temp
END

```
Try putting the CTE in the IF. It worked for me.

```
IF @awsome = 1
BEGIN
;WITH CTE
AS
( 
    SELECT * FROM SOMETABLE
)
    SELECT 'WHATEVERYOUWANT' FROM CTE
END
ELSE IF @awesome = 2
BEGIN
;WITH CTE2
AS
( 
    SELECT * FROM SOMETABLE
)
    SELECT 'WHATEVERYOUWANT' FROM CTE2
END

```