Create Table from View

Question

I have a view that I want to create a table from in SQL Enterprise Manager, but I always get an error when I run this query:

CREATE TABLE A 
AS
(SELECT top 1         


        

Answer 1

If you just want to snag the schema and make an empty table out of it, use a false predicate, like so:

SELECT * INTO myNewTable FROM myView WHERE 1=2

Answer 2

SELECT * INTO [table_a] FROM dbo.myView

Answer 3

Looks a lot like Oracle, but that doesn't work on SQL Server.

You can, instead, adopt the following syntax...

SELECT
  *
INTO
  new_table
FROM
  old_source(s)

Answer 4

SQL Server does not support CREATE TABLE AS SELECT.

Use this:

SELECT  *
INTO    A
FROM    myview

or

SELECT  TOP 10
        *
INTO    A
FROM    myview
ORDER BY
        id

Answer 5

In SQL SERVER you do it like this:

SELECT *
INTO A
FROM dbo.myView

This will create a new table A with the contents of your view.
See here for more info.

Answer 6

To create a table on the fly us this syntax:

SELECT *
INTO A
FROM dbo.myView