GilaMonster (8/20/2013)
Sean Lange (8/20/2013)
GilaMonster (8/20/2013)
A CTE however, despite its name, is not a table and hence can not have anything inserted into it.Acutally you can insert into a cte, just like you can delete from them.
No, actually you can't. What you can do is insert into a table (permanent, temporary or variable) through a CTE, just as you can with a view (if it is updateable).
You're not inserting into the CTE because a CTE has no persistent storage, it's just a select statement. The insert is into the base tables that the CTE is defined upon.
True enough. I should have said that you can use them as the source for those operations but the data will really reside in the base table. Thanks for the correction.
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