Hi Lowell,

Thanks for taking the time to have a look. I will run some tests for both of these. I prefer creating a temp View and checking the dependancies and then dropping as I suspect that some of the system procs for obtaining execution paths are probably not available in Azure. I will update this thread with my test results and then eventually my work.

So far I have a script to create a temp table for a INSERT INTO SELECT... to replace the SELECT * INTO FROM (unsupported in Azure) which will allow any number of fields to be used without defining the destination temp table up front (which is my issue). This currently works on the results of one table (no joins) - your proposed solution may help me get to a temp table query with joins... I will post results.