Question

Is anyone aware of a way to create a table definition from a stored procedure result set?

I have a stored procedure which produces a result set with 30+ columns, I’d like to get this into a table without having to manually create all the table columns.

Is there a built in procedure that will dump out the column names and types..?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You “can” do it but I don’t know if I’d recommend it:

EXEC sp_configure 'Show Advanced Options', 1
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO
EXEC sp_configure 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', 1
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO

SELECT
  *
INTO
  #table
FROM
  OPENROWSET(
    'SQLNCLI',
    'SERVER=.;Trusted_Connection=yes',
    'EXEC StoredProcedureName'
  )