Alternate to temporary table in azure sql

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Alternate to temporary table in azure sql

Arjun

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October 22, 2019 at 6:27 pm

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Hi ,
Currently am using temporary table to add id(identity(1,1)) value to all the records. any alternate solution without temp table.Am moving data from one table to two downstream tables with unique id value using temp table. Due to this am facing performance issues.
Table A:
Name   Age   Email      MobileNo
Ali         25     gtr@cd    564789003
Gorg        27     gtyu@cd    432345677
Temp table: Generating ID(Identity(1,1) for all the records.
ID   Name   Age   Email      MobileNo
1    Ali         25     gtr@cd    564789003
2   Gorg        27     gtyu@cd    432345677
Downstream tables: Moving data to two tables with same ID value from temp table.
Table B:
ID   Name    Age
1    Ali         25
2   Gorg        27
Table C:
ID   Email      MobileNo
1    gtr@cd    564789003
2   gtyu@cd    432345677
Please suggest any other solution(without temp table) to achieve this.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734449 More actions · Answer 1

What exactly are you doing with your code? If you are moving lots of data, this will be hard.

You don't need a temp table. If you select with row_number(), you'll get a number you can use for one table. For the second, then join back. Is there any key you can use in the original table?

Steve Collins SSCrazy Points: 2068 More actions · Answer 2

Why not just create a primary key in table A?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 3

While you're at it, don't forget to store a date with the age so that you can estimate the actual age in the future. You might want to consider further normalization of the data to get to at least 3rd normal form but I don't know what the uses of this data will actually be.

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