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>Hello all!
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>I am having trouble with accomplishing a specific task. I have poured over the help file and through some books, and by all accounts, what I'm attempting in T-SQL should work. But perhaps there is something else I am missing, so let me explain a little regarding my scenario:
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>I need to generate an XML structure (no records) for any given table. The problem is, if I query SQL Server through a URL that has a zero record result set, all I get back is the root node. I need this structure so that I can create a new record for any table.
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>I know that I could query the system tables and perform a stylesheet translation to convert the result set of fields into the desired structure. However, I have my concerns about performance to do this.
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>I know that I could insert a new blank record into the table and query it back out. However we are in a stateless environment and there is no guarantee that the inserted record would actually be committed. (Someone might lose their internet connection, etc.)
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>So I thought I could create a temporary table with no records based on the structure of the given table. I DO NOT want to explicitly create the structure. So I thought I might do this with SELECT INTO. That seems to work fine. However, when I attempt to insert an empty record into the temporary table, I receive an error stating that the Temporary Table is an invalid object.
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>What am I missing here?
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>TIA.