Comments on: SQL SERVER – How to Drop Temp Table – Check Existence of Temp Table

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:43:57 +0000

if OBJECT_ID(‘tempdb..#temp’)>0 DROP TABLE #temp
This will not work on SQL Server 2012, as OBJECT_ID for temp tables will return negative values

By: I love SQL

I love SQL — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:23:46 +0000

shorter of all
if OBJECT_ID(‘tempdb..#temp’)>0 DROP TABLE #temp

By: Mrityunjay Singh

Mrityunjay Singh — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:27:38 +0000

sivaramakrishnan

Sorry i am late, But if you code same type or error again then please use this code to solve your error

SELECT @MYQUERY = ‘IF EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM TEMPDB..SYSOBJECTS WHERE NAME LIKE ”%##PF’ + CAST ( @@SPID AS VARCHAR ) + ‘%” ) DROP TABLE ##PF’ + CAST ( @@SPID AS VARCHAR )
EXECUTE ( @MYQUERY )

By: Mrityunjay Singh

Mrityunjay Singh — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:24:49 +0000

sivaramakrishnan,

please use this to solve your error

By: sivaramakrishnan

sivaramakrishnan — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:03:52 +0000

how to delete ##teemp table please clarify this…

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 02 May 2011 11:39:12 +0000

Useful & to the point .Keep it up

By: Raghuveer

Raghuveer — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:57:30 +0000

Hi is it good to write many stored procedure and call one with in one instead of writing one single 6 to 15 pages stored procedure.
I am assuming that sp execute like parallel programming.

By: Rinku

Rinku — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:25:17 +0000

Nice Article! as OBJECT_ID() function returns details related to temp table in context of current session so won’t get multiple entries for tables starting with same name, as system suffixes some numbers after local temp table. so it will be tough to identify row related to session in context.

By: Hiren Solanki

Hiren Solanki — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:14:26 +0000

Hi Pinal,
Nice Article.

By: deepak Kumar

deepak Kumar — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:14:46 +0000

IF OBJECT_ID(‘tempdb..#TEMP’) IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
DROP TABLE #TEMP
END

By: Saby

Saby — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:31:46 +0000

Here i really like to make a comment that i m getting an issue with the tempdb as there are some blocking seen while there is a temp table created wthin the procedures there.

Eg there is a procedure wthin the procedure the are nested procedure called.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:08:45 +0000

Thanks, this worked for me as well. I had been going nuts trying to figure this out.

IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM tempdb.dbo.sysobjects WHERE ID = OBJECT_ID(N’tempdb..#t’)) BEGIN DROP TABLE #t END

By: SRPBHUSHAN

SRPBHUSHAN — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:02:02 +0000

Here is the Example.
I have two tables Manager and Employee each has different Empids and Salaries so i want to get the Maximum sal of the Two tables.for that i have used #temptables.

select salary into #temptbks from Empsal Union select salary from Managers;select max(salary)as salary from #temptbks;
drop table #temptbks.As soon as temptable is created U should delete so that u can use that same table if the Original table has been Updated.The #temptable will be available in that database itself.In sql-server.If u want this query in asp.net than go for Stored procedure.

By: Pinal Dave

Pinal Dave — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:30:30 +0000

Hi Mike,

The objectid of temporary table can be viewed by this query:

select OBJECT_ID(‘tempdb.dbo.#tmp_mwj’)

Regards,
Pinal Dave

By: mike

mike — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:00:02 +0000

Well when I try this I get a NULL value returned.

select my_id, my_name
into #tmp_mwj
from dbo.my_table

(creates table)

select OBJECT_ID(‘dbo.#tmp_mwj’)
(returns null)

SELECT 1
FROM dbo.sysobjects
WHERE ID = OBJECT_ID(‘dbo.#tmp_mwj’)

By: medamo

medamo — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:03:02 +0000

Thanks! This was a great place to get a working solution for us. I modified it slightly:
Select
1
FROM
tempdb.dbo.sysobjects (nolock)
WHERE
ID = OBJECT_ID(N’tempdb.dbo.#batch’) and
[Type] = ‘U’

Our deployment team doesn’t like “Select *” for any reason, also added a (nolock) hint and limited it User ‘U’ object types only.

By: Umesh

Umesh — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:49:26 +0000

Thank You sir

By: wael

wael — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:11:41 +0000

Thank You Very Much
it work perfectly with me

By: Joe Chapman

Joe Chapman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:29:54 +0000

“i tired using it
i get sysntax error
Incorrect syntax near ‘)’ ” – SVK

I suspect that this is because the character ’ (single quote) is invalid, it should be ‘ (apostrophe) instead.

What I suspect has happened is that either the database for this website is converting apostrophes to single quote or the developer of the query pasted their query into MS Word which then assumed that the character should be a single quote and converted it.

Solution: Try replacing all single quote characters to apostrophes. I did that and it works fine for me.

By: SVK

SVK — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:08:28 +0000

i tired using it
i get sysntax error
Incorrect syntax near ‘)’

By: Aaron Sanek

Aaron Sanek — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:58:01 +0000

Below is how you can check and delete temp tables.

IF EXISTS
(
SELECT *
FROM tempdb.dbo.sysobjects
WHERE ID = OBJECT_ID(N’tempdb..#MyTempTable’)
)
BEGIN
DROP TABLE #MyTempTable
END