I still do it this way, that's why I asked if there was a better way to do it -- perhaps by using the ALTER VIEW or some other method. So everyone keeps saying that they used to populate tables this way. Which way are you doing it now?

I only do this method for my raw data sources. The presentation layer (Not a real name for a data layer) is what has all the constraints and foreign keys. The raw data comes from multiple sources so no contraints are at that level. If they were, then you'd have to be extremely careful on which tables you load first and too many tables get populated simultaneously to have to worry about another problem like that.