Declaring table variable to have the same shape of existing user table

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Declaring table variable to have the same shape of existing user table

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Posted - 2002-12-12 : 08:56:52

San writes "Is there a way to declare a table variable to have the same shape (meaning same columns and column types) of an existing user table without explicitly specifying all the column names and column types?

Eg., Say I have a table called Person with 15 columns. I want a local table variable to have the same structure as Person. I know I can do

declare @myPersonTable (col1, col1Type.....col15 col15Type).

Thanks
San"

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Posted - 2002-12-12 : 10:29:19

No, but you can with temp tables....


select * into #sysdb from sysdatabase

Jay White
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Posted - 2002-12-12 : 10:40:50

I like using an automated script to get all that. This script will look up all the info you need from the syscolumns and systypes table

select
case when st.name = 'varchar' then sc.name + ' ' + st.name + '(' + convert(varchar(5),sc.length)+'),'
else sc.name + ' ' + st.name + ','
end
from syscolumns sc inner join systypes st on st.xtype = sc.xtype where id = object_id('resource_data_seq_administration')
order by colid

the results will be

col1 varchar(40),
col2 int,

and so on. Copy paste the result (easiest if you tell query analyzer to spit out everything into a text file) and do a couple modifcations. You'll need to remove the comma from the last line (haven't quite figured out a way to automate that)

Hope it helps... typing out column names and data types can take waaaay to long sometimes

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ValterBorges
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Posted - 2002-12-12 : 10:42:27

SELECT *
INTO #MyTempTable
FROM MyRealTable
WHERE 1=0

This will create #MyTempTable with same structure and zero records.

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