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  • August 20, 2013 at 9:01 am

    #1643108

    The INSERT ... EXEC can be used to insert into a table variable or temp table. A CTE however, despite its name, is not a table and hence can not have anything inserted into it. Think of a CTE as a temporary view, so a select statement.

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