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  • March 14, 2013 at 10:36 pm

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    Dineshbabu (3/12/2013)

    One easiest way to avoid this confusion is .. don't use SELECT * INTO.

    Always prefer CREATE TABLE..

    Ah, not so fast there. SELECT/INTO is, depending on what your needs are, is an incredibly high performance tool. To adopt a rule of thumb of not using SELECT/INTO is a mistake that can leave you out in the cold performance wise. Like all else in SQL Server, "It Depends".

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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