Please tell me why this code is throwing an error.

Question

I can not for the life of me figure out what is wrong with this code:

IF NOT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM sys.columns WHERE name = 'Report_Date' 
                       AND object_id = OBJECT_ID('TempTable3'))
    ALTER TABLE TempTable3 ADD Report_Date datetime

--Set "ReportDate" field to the date the data was extracted less one.
UPDATE TempTable3
SET Report_Date = '20100815'

I keep getting this error:

"Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 51
Invalid column name 'Report_Date'."

Answer 1

Put a GO after alter table

ALTER TABLE TempTable3 ADD Report_Date datetime
GO