Question

Here’s my query. What I want to do is run this query every week so table PlanFinder.InvalidAwps will have new records. But when I run the query it gives me this error :

There is already an object named 'InvalidAwps' in the database. 

I can’t change the table name. It has to remain the same. So how can I run this query every week keeping table name as it is?

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IF  EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects  
WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[PlanFinder].[InvalidAwps]')  
AND type in (N'U')) 
BEGIN 
      DROP TABLE [PlanFinder].[InvalidAwps] 
END 

SELECT DISTINCT P.Ndc Ndc, A.Price AwpUnitCost INTO PlanFinder.InvalidAwps
FROM
    PlanFinder.PlanFinder.HpmsFormulary P
    LEFT JOIN (SELECT Ndc, Price FROM MHSQL01D.Drug.FdbPricing.vNdcPrices 
               WHERE PriceTypeCode = '01' AND CurrentFlag = 1) A
ON P.Ndc = A.Ndc 
WHERE (A.Ndc IS NULL OR A.Price <= 0 OR A.Price IS NULL)
AND p.Ndc IS NOT NULL 
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Answer 1

Why go through the work of dropping and recreating the table every time? Instead, create the table once and then going forward:

truncate table [PlanFinder].[InvalidAwps]
go

insert into [PlanFinder].[InvalidAwps]
    (Ndc, AwpUnitCost)
    SELECT DISTINCT P.Ndc Ndc, A.Price AwpUnitCost
    FROM
        PlanFinder.PlanFinder.HpmsFormulary P
        LEFT JOIN (SELECT Ndc, Price FROM MHSQL01D.Drug.FdbPricing.vNdcPrices 
                   WHERE PriceTypeCode = '01' AND CurrentFlag = 1) A
    ON P.Ndc = A.Ndc 
    WHERE (A.Ndc IS NULL OR A.Price <= 0 OR A.Price IS NULL)
    AND p.Ndc IS NOT NULL