INSERT INTO a temp table, and have an IDENTITY field created, without first declaring the temp table?

Question

I need to select a bunch of data into a temp table to then do some secondary calculations; To help make it work more efficiently, I would like to have an IDENTITY column on that

Answer 1

Oh ye of little faith:

SELECT *, IDENTITY( int ) AS idcol
  INTO #newtable
  FROM oldtable

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa933208(SQL.80).aspx