Aug 26, 2008 · If you're writing a function you should use table variables over temp tables unless there's a compelling need otherwise. Both table variables and temp tables are stored in tempdb. But table variables (since 2005) default to the collation of the current database versus temp tables which take the default collation of tempdb (ref).

May 20, 2009 · The question is tagged SQL Server 2000 but for the benefit of people developing on the latest version I'll address that first. SQL Server 2014 In addition to the methods of adding constraint based indexes discussed below SQL Server 2014 also allows non unique indexes to be specified directly with inline syntax on table variable declarations. Example syntax for that is below. /*SQL Server 2014 ...

Oct 1, 2010 · Got a complex SELECT query, from which I would like to insert all rows into a table variable, but T-SQL doesn't allow it. Along the same lines, you cannot use a table variable with SELECT INTO or

Mar 19, 2020 · In case your data is a string DECLARE @tbl TABLE(Id int) INSERT INTO @TBL SELECT value from string_split('1, 2, 3, 4, 5',',') Select * from @tbl

Table variables are just like int or varchar variables. You don't need to drop them. They have the same scope rules as int or varchar variables The scope of a variable is the range of Transact-SQL statements that can reference the variable. The scope of a variable lasts from the point it is declared until the end of the batch or stored procedure in which it is declared.

On SQL Server 2008+ it is possible to use Table Valued Parameters to pass in a table variable to a dynamic SQL statement as long as you don't need to update the values in the table itself. So from the code you posted you could use this approach for @TSku but not for @RelPro Example syntax below. CREATE TYPE MyTable AS TABLE ( Foo int, Bar int ); GO DECLARE @T AS MyTable; INSERT INTO @T VALUES ...

Mar 28, 2016 · For this you will need a dynamic sql solution. Sql server will not treat the % inside the table variable as a wildcard, it will treat it as a part of the string. However, there are ways around that, if you can change the table variable.

Update: In fact, creation of such an index on table variable can be useless. Normally SQL Server estimates that a table variable has a single row, thus it will not use this index with relatively high probability.

Jun 30, 2011 · This is more of a syntax question I'm trying to write a store procedure or function that I can embed into a query such as: select * from MyBigProcOrFunction I'm trying to define a tabular function...

A procedure can't return a table as such. However you can select from a table in a procedure and direct it into a table (or table variable) like this: create procedure p_x as begin declare @t table(col1 varchar(10), col2 float, col3 float, col4 float) insert @t values('a', 1,1,1) insert @t values('b', 2,2,2) select * from @t end go declare @t table(col1 varchar(10), col2 float, col3 float ...