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Published inMay 2020
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Josephine Bush
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Josephine Bush has over 10 years experience as a Database Administrator. Her experience is extensive and broad-based, including in financial, business, and energy data systems using MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. She is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics. She holds a BS in Information Technology, an MBA in IT Management, and an MS in Data Analytics.
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Creating and using temporary tables

Temporary tables allow you to store temporary query results that can be used during a query session. A temporary table can only be used in your current session. No one else can use them except you. These kinds of tables are useful when you have a complicated or long-running query whose results you want to use in a session. This way, you won't have to keep running the same query over and over, but instead, store the results and query that table.

Learning how to create and use a temporary table

To create a temporary table, you can use the same syntax that we used for creating a permanent table, except we will add the TEMPORARY keyword. You can either create a temporary table with a definition...

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Published in: May 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838984762

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Josephine Bush

Josephine Bush has over 10 years experience as a Database Administrator. Her experience is extensive and broad-based, including in financial, business, and energy data systems using MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. She is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics. She holds a BS in Information Technology, an MBA in IT Management, and an MS in Data Analytics.
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