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malleswarareddy_m

Posted Thursday, December 16, 2010 3:40 AM

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I got 10 rows.I am using sqlserver 2008.

I think the author answer is correct.It s depends

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Bobby VK

Posted Thursday, December 16, 2010 3:42 AM

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I don't think there was an "it depends" answer. It seems the question is flawed to the point where you can't say that a single answer is always true, most people who have responded thus far got the error, not a set of records.

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Posted Thursday, December 16, 2010 6:17 AM

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Nice question and an important point, but I have executed the code a 100 times or more and I always get the error.
Statistically I'm allowed to say that the correct answer is the error BigGrin

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Posted Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:37 AM

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Interesting question, even more interesting explanation. Hmmm. I guess my take away from this question, is don't use temp tables in stored procedures.

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Posted Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:43 AM

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The question clearly states "What will be the results of the following?". Not what does the Books Online say about nested temp tables using the same name.

Why is the answer for a differant question?

Why do you say that this code is compatable on versions of SQL server it is not?

This is the type of confusing trick question that requires the ability to read the authors mind to resolve.

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Posted Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:08 AM

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Tricky question/answer -not sure if I would ever use the information learned with this one either. Cool

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Richard M Karpel

Posted Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:13 AM

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The problem is that when you run the code as is, you will not get to Proc3; If you do, you get the answer that you are looking for. But since proc2 is run from proc1, and the temp table is still in actual scope, you will get Answer C, which is an error message and stops the processing at the insert inside of Proc2. Thus when Proc3 is executed and the temp table is not defined and you would get the answer that you list as correct.

Now, I read the section highlighted in BOL, and I expected to get the not defined error message, but I would need to look further and see why, #test1 still was available to Proc2. It should have created a new version of #test1, but it did not, it saw the version created within Proc1.

So for everyone that got the mismatch column error, what is different about our setup then the one that should match the BOL.

I am running SS2K8 Developer Edition, with the latest patches, but not R2.

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Cliff Jones

Posted Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:18 AM

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A very interesting question but I am not sure the answer is completely correct? Seems like the contents of the temp table would be within the scope of the last stored procedure to create the temp table. So 10 records.

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Posted Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:19 AM

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Interesting question Wayne - Thanks!

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Posted Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:22 AM

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Paul Peeters (12/16/2010)

The real error that is displayed is "Incorrect syntax" because there is a non-matching closing parenthesis in the select statement in dbo.Proc1 Tongue

Look more closely. At first glance it appears that way but the parentheses match.

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