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Pro SQL Server Internals
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Pro SQL Server Internals

by Dmitri Korotkevitch
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
804 pages
22h 17m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 12

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Temporary Tables

Temporary tables are an essential part of SQL Server. SQL Server will sometimes create them during query execution to store working tables and intermediate result sets. At other times, they are created by developers.

In this chapter, we will discuss a few different types of temporary tables that can be created by users: local and global temporary tables, table variables, user-defined table types, and table-valued parameters.

Temporary Tables

We create temporary tables to store short-term information, such as intermediate results and temporary data during data processing. Temporary tables live in tempdb, and they behave ...

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