Question

I have a stored procedure in SQL 2005. The Stored Procedure is actually creating temporary tables in the beginning of SP and deleting it in the end. I am now debugging the SP in VS 2005. In between the SP i would want to know the contents into the temporary table. Can anybody help in in viewing the contents of the temporary table at run time.

Thanks Vinod T

Answer 1

There are several kinds of temporary tables, I think you could use the table which is not dropped after SP used it. Just make sure you don’t call the same SP twice or you’ll get an error trying to create an existing table. Or just drop the temp table after you see it’s content. So instead of using a table variable (@table) just use #table or ##table

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From http://arplis.com/temporary-tables-in-microsoft-sql-server/:

Local Temporary Tables

• Local temporary tables prefix with single number sign (#) as the first character of their names, like (#table_name).
• Local temporary tables are visible only in the current session OR you can say that they are visible only to the current connection for the user. They are deleted when the user disconnects from instances of Microsoft SQL Server.

Global temporary tables

• Global temporary tables prefix with double number sign (##) as the first character of their names, like (##table_name).
• Global temporary tables are visible to all sessions OR you can say that they are visible to any user after they are created.
• They are deleted when all users referencing the table disconnect from Microsoft SQL Server.