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Asked: 2026-05-31T15:28:15+00:00

I was doing some querying today in T-SQL, SQL-Server-2008 and stumbled upon something weird

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I was doing some querying today in T-SQL, SQL-Server-2008 and stumbled upon something weird that I didn’t understand. Using the query windows, I am trying to query from two common table expressions like so (I stripped out a lot of code to make it more obvious what I was doing):

;WITH temp1 AS (SELECT * FROM dbo.Log)
, temp2 AS (SELECT  * FROM dbo.SignalCodeItems300_tbl)

SELECT * FROM temp1
SELECT * FROM temp2

However, only one of the select statements will run, the FIRST one. Regardless of which is which, only the first runs. I assume this is some sort of syntax thing that I’m missing maybe? I get the error “Invalid object name ‘temp2′”.

Could someone shed some light on this problem? Are there any workarounds for this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    No, this works as it should. A CTE (Common Table Expression) is only available for the first statement after the definition. So in other words, after select * from temp1, they both become unavailable.

    The fix would be this:

    ;WITH temp1 AS (SELECT * FROM dbo.Log)
SELECT * FROM temp1

;WITH temp2 AS (SELECT  * FROM dbo.SignalCodeItems300_tbl)
SELECT * FROM temp2
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