Question

I have a rather complex SELECT statement in a stored procedure that I am updating to insert the rows from the select into a temp table. To define the temp table, I need to know the data type of each every item selected.

Is there a easy way (a script maybe) that I can use to determine the data types and the temp table structure instead of going to each table’s definition in the select to find out what it is?

PS: I can’t use a Common table expression as I need to use this temp table several times within the proc

Answer 1

SELECT
  blah
INTO
  #temp
FROM
  wibble

blah and wibble are not secret syntax. Please replace these with your own SQL 🙂