I have two lines of code in SQL that create two tables on the fly, i need to do something like IF TABLE EXISTS DROP IT AND CREATE IT AGAIN ELSE CREATE IT my lines are the following ones ...

I am using the following code to check if the temporary table exists and drop the table if it exists before creating again. It works fine as long as I don't change the columns. If I add a column la...

Mar 31, 2011 · The version below avoids all of the hassles of dealing with the '_' s. I just wanted to get rid of non-global temp tables, hence the '#[^#]%' in my WHERE clause, drop the [^#] if you want to …

Mar 27, 2009 · Local temporary tables are destroyed when you close your connection to SQL Server. There is no need to manually purge them under normal circumstances. If you maintain a persistent …

Sep 6, 2012 · When using temp tables in SQL Server stored procs, is the preferred practice to; 1) Create the temp table, populate it, use it then drop it CREATE TABLE #MyTable ( ... ) -- Do stuff DROP …

A temporary table is created with a SELECT .. INTO statement SELECT * INTO #MyTempTable FROM ... Under Databases, tempdb, Temporary Tables I see the temp table dbo.#

Mar 20, 2012 · 2 I am having problems removing a temp table in SQL server. I have a stored procedure but when I run in via my application it says: "There is already an object named '#WeekList' in the …

The scope of a table variable is with in the specific batch. So you don't have to explicitly do anything to drop/deallocate the space occupied by table variable.

Apr 15, 2010 · I have a client application that creates a temp table, the performs a bulk insert into the temp table, then executes some SQL using the table before deleting it. Pseudo-code: open …

You can read more about in in this Paul White's article: Temporary Tables in Stored Procedures CREATE and DROP, Don’t I will talk about this in much more detail in my next post, but the key point …