I am trying to take a legacy database that is now on SQL Server 2008 R2 and create a database project within Visual Studio 2010 for it. There are several stored procedures that used some “on-the-fly” temp tables (the kind where you SELECT * INTO #NewTempTable) Obviously this causes some SQL04151 reference warnings in the database project.
Is there any way to fix or just maybe ignore these specific warnings? I know the immediate answer might be to actually declare the temp table within the procedure and define the columns, but at this point, that isn’t an option.
This does not appear to be an issue with the latest database project type for VS 2010, installed as part of SQL Server Data Tools.
Try to install SQL Server Data Tools. After it’s installed you’ll be able to upgrade your database project to the new type by right-clicking it in Solution Explorer. (The new project type is backwards compatible with SQL 2008 and SQL 2005 and also comes with some significant improvements.)
FYI the new project type has a very generic name of “SQL Server Database Project” and you’ll find it in the “SQL Server” template group as opposed to the “Database > SQL Server” group.