RE: How to preserve global temporary table data

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March 29, 2013 at 1:41 pm

the only sure fire way to keep the keep that global temp table around is by having the process which created the temp table keep it's connection open. that is the only way to guarantee that a global temp table will remain in scope.

It really sounds like a permanent table would be better; especially for situations where the table gets created Friday, but the first person in the office Monday used an app that expected that info to still be there.

Lowell

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