• Those are table variables. Unlike temp tables, the name that they are given in code has no relation to the name assigned in TempDB.

    It's also possible that temp tables created by various system processes appears in the list. I'm not sure if there's any way to find the process that created a temp object, and thereby filter out ones created by the system.

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