Learn the differences, benefits, and drawbacks of using temporary tables or table variables in T-SQL stored procedures, and how to optimize performance.

Table variables are a type of temporary table that can be used to store and manipulate data in SQL Server. They are declared and assigned values using the table data type, and they are ...

Indexes can't be created explicitly on table variables, and no statistics are kept on table variables. Starting with SQL [!INCLUDEsssql14-md], new syntax was introduced which allows you to create ...

This post describes the major differences between cte, temp table and table variables.1) cte cte stands for common table expressions. these are simple select queries and they do not create physical ...

Sql server provides a number of global variables, which are very useful.the values of these variables is maintained by the server. all the global variables represent information specific to the server ...