If your business uses relational databases to store data, you may have used a SQL SELECT clause to create new tables from query results. This method won't work in SQL Server, but Microsoft's Trans ...

The third form of the CREATE TABLE statement stores the results of any query-expression in a table and does not display the output. It is a convenient way to create temporary tables that are subsets ...

Create a query from within Access that attaches to my SQL Server and retrieves the recordset. I'd likely use the same technique I applied in this thread. <BR>2.

Temp tables persist until then connection closes, so you don't have to do it all in one query.<BR><BR>Alternately, try collapsing your queries and eliminate the whole idea of a temp table.