Carlo Romagnano (11/22/2010)
Carlo Romagnano (11/22/2010)
WayneS (11/22/2010)
BTW, the best way to check for the existance of a temporary table in your current session is:
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#YourTempTable') IS NOT NULL
Note that in SQL Server thru version 2008R2, temp tables are created with a positive object_id value, so you might want to use:
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#YourTempTable') > 0
You can test <> 0
I always use
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#YourTempTable') <> 0
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But as Wayne said, the best way is to use IS NOT NULL. Why? Because then you're testing for the defined behavior. OBJECT_ID() is designed to return NULL (NOT 0) for objects which do not exist or are not schema-scoped.
So if you test against 0, you're designing potential failure (there's no technical reason why Microsoft couldn't have SQL Server create an object with an ID of 0 -- it's just another number, after all) into your application for no good reason.