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

There are several ways to hold intermediate data for processing in T-SQL. Derived tables could be looked at as temporary-views that exists for the duration of the execution of the outer query. Even ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In this, Part 4 of a series on programming T-SQL ...