Carlton Leach (2/25/2011)
My 5 cents is always use a temp table. It behaves more like a real table than a table variable does.Carlton.
There are perfectly valid reasons to use a table variable instead of a temp table. One thing about sql that never changes is that the word "always" is never 100% accurate. Read the first article referenced and you can see clearly that in some situations a variable would be preferred over a temp table and vice versa.
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