How can be used in a stored procedure the name of a table that was passed as a varchar parameter? The table name must be used in the "from" clause of a "select" statement without calling the "EXECUTE" or "sp_executesql". Is it possible?
Marius G.

yes

create procedure usp_tableget @tbname varchar(100)
as
exec('select * from '+@tbname)

I'll assume from your references that you are dealing with Microsoft SQL. The answer is essentially the same no matter which SQL engine you are using, although the implementation details are different.

There are ways to do it, but they all involve dynamic SQL of some sort. Obviously you can get there via EXECUTE ('SELECT * FROM ' + @t) and similar tricks using sp_sqlexec, but you've ruled those out. You can also get there via OPENQUERY, and via all kinds of twists that do basically the same kind of thing.

You are asking for dynamic SQL. You may have to live with getting dynamic SQL!

-PatP