Kevin,

I know, I use table variables almost exclusively. I was just wondering about what the scope might be, just for clarification purposes.

~~Bonnie

>I'm not positive of this, but I had thought temp tables were scoped to the connection. Either way, I agree with you, a DROP at the end is a good idea.
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>Going back to Agnes' original question, you may want to look at Sergey's suggestion of derived tables, or even using table variables. Both are often more efficient than temp tables.
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>Kevin