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Create a Table variables schema from an existing table

Hello all,

I need to select some rows from a table in to a table variable. The problem I am having is that I need to define the schema for the table variable, which is essentailly the same as the table that I am selecting from. I was wondering if there was some other way of defining a table variables schema from a source, rather than hard coding it.

So something like
DECLARE @myTable table (SELECT * FROM tMyOtherTable)

would be nice

Also, using my table variable I then select a series of related data based on the pk.

So i'm doing

Select
tBooleanValues.*
FROM
tBooleanValue
JOIN tBooleanValue ON tFieldValue.FieldValueID = tBooleanValue.FieldValueID
WHERE
tFieldValue.ContainerID IN (SELECT ID FROM @myTable)

this several times. The only thing that changes is the tBooleanValue becomes tTextValue or tDateValue etc. I was wondering if there was some way I could put this in a loop and use an alias for the table that I want to select from.

Cheers

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worldspawn

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well that was pretty much the answer I was expecting... thanx for the tip on the "EXISTS"

The point of not using the hard coded table structure was so that any SP's that do it can cope with a table structure change without falling over.

alas it was not meant to be

Tacobell777

Not 100% sure what your after, but would this do the trick??

DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR
SET @sql = 'SELECT * FROM tMyOtherTable'

EXEC sp_executesql @sql

worldspawn

ASKER

not really. no.