How to create temp tables in SQL Server via MS Access

Question

I have an ODBC connection to SQL Server. I need to process data within Access, but it takes too long. My idea is to push this data to a SQL Server temp table and have SQL Server

Answer 1

Here is a snippet of VBA code I used to call a DB2 stored procedure. The same technique should work for any DDL statement. To do this, create a pass-through query and put your CREATE TABLE #tblname... statement as its SQL text.

IMPORTANT: Then open the query's property sheet and set the 'Returns Records' property to "No".

Dim qdf As QueryDef
Set qdf = CurrentDb.QueryDefs("qry_SP_CHANGE_COLUMN")
qdf.Connect = CurrentDb.TableDefs("SCHEMA_tblName").Connect
qdf.SQL = "call SCHEMA.SP_CHANGE_COLUMN(...)"
qdf.Execute dbFailOnError
qdf.Close
Set qdf = Nothing

Note, you probably won't have to change your SQL text. You can just leave that in the query def if the table structure never changes.

The challenge for you is that you must use the same connection for any operations against the temp table. The minute the connection is closed, your temp table will vanish because it's a local temp table, and it's only visible to that one connection. You can avoid this by using '##', global temp tables, if you have rights to do that.