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brianpark
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Posted - 03/29/2007 :  10:09:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi,
I need to create a temptable with name string variable passed from user. I am going to use a timestamp as part of name table.
I planned build @StrName = "#Temp" + dateTime and pass it to the Stored Procedure to create temp table using

Create Table @StrName
(
SpecCD int,
SpecID varchar()
)

I think I can't use string variable as a temp table name.
Is it possible to creat a local temp table with dynamically generated string as a table name?

Thanks in advance.
Brian.

harsh_athalye
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India
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Posted - 03/29/2007 :  10:13:43  Show Profile  Visit harsh_athalye's Homepage  Click to see harsh_athalye's MSN Messenger address  Send harsh_athalye a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Is it possible to creat a local temp table with dynamically generated string as a table name?

It is possible but all subsequent operations on that temp table will have to be written as D-SQL only like:

Exec('create table #temp1(a int); insert #temp1 values(1); select * from #temp1')


Anyway, what is the purpose of creating local temp table with dynamic name?

Harsh Athalye
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khtan
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Posted - 03/29/2007 :  11:14:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Why do you want to create a temp table with timestamp as part of the name ?

Do you know that local temp table exists only to the connection ? You can have 100 connections to the SQLServer creating temp table with the same name.

KH
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