Question

I wanna put the results from sql query into a table but if i do SELECT columns names INTO NEWTABLE(which is not created), its good for one time but when i run that query again, it says table already exists. All i am doing is results from that query into the newtable and i am gonna run it every week so it should not give me the error: table already exists.

For Example : i wanna put Following query results into a Newtable EmployeeDetails and i am gonna run it every week.

select a.Name, b.Id 
from Database1 a left join  
     Database2 b 
ON a.Id = b.Id 

Answer 1

Check with IF EXISTS

example for sql server

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

select * into [dbo].[YOurTableName]
from ......