Question

I think I may misunderstand why the with command is used. But can any one see what I am doing wrong.
I want to do a query and use the results for two things. First I want to use the values to make some inserts into another table. Then I want to display the results to the user.

So I have something like this.

With temp as (
Select * from Table1 
)
INSERT INTO Table2 (table1_id) select id from temp
SELECT * from temp 

And I get

Error: Invalid object name ‘temp’. SQLState: S0002
ErrorCode: 208

Is this not what the with command is for?

Answer 1

From MSDN:

A common table expression (CTE) can be thought of as a temporary
result set that is defined within the execution scope of a single
SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or CREATE VIEW statement.

Since the insert statement and the select statement are two different statements, the CTE is only valid for the insert.

As an alternative, you could consider using an OUTPUT clause:

WITH temp AS (
    SELECT * FROM Table1 
)
INSERT INTO Table2 (table1_id) 
OUTPUT inserted.id
SELECT id FROM temp