TheSQLGuru (1/16/2014)
IIRC explicit drops aren't even honored any longer...
They are, they always have been. Drop a temp table and you can't access it any longer. Essential when testing code before putting into a procedure. 'cannot create #test because it already exists' is annoying.
Now, the engine may choose to cache that temp table (strip out the metadata and just leave a couple of allocated pages), but it can do that with automatic drops on session close anyway.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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