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 ...

When working with databases other than Microsoft's SQL Server, check the manual to see if it supports SELECT INTO. It might support the syntax or it might use another way of accomplishing the same ...

SQL Server throws a wobbly when one tries to declare/create the same-named temporary table more than once in the same procedure - I guess the query analyser assumes that all temp table creations ...

It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us. SQL Server lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table. For example, suppose in Access you ...