{"id":630,"date":"2009-09-01T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/bobb\/post\/Temporary-table-lifetime-and-SQLCLR-stored-procedures.aspx"},"modified":"2009-09-01T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T11:45:00","slug":"temporary-table-lifetime-and-sqlclr-stored-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/bobb\/temporary-table-lifetime-and-sqlclr-stored-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary table lifetime and SQLCLR stored procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nPeople are sometimes concerned with the lifetime of temporary tables they create in CLR code. As an example, if I use a parameterized statement in .NET code, the&nbsp;SqlClient provider&nbsp;wraps the statement in exec sp_executesql. If the statement batch&nbsp;includes something like &quot;CREATE TABLE #temp1&quot;&nbsp;as part of&nbsp;the batch, the table #temp1 is no longer visible when the batch returns. This is because the lifetime of a temporary table created inside of a stored procedure is the stored procedure itself, ie. the temporary table no longer exists once the stored procedure completes. In this case, the stored procedure that&#39;s scoping the temp table is &quot;sp_executesql&quot;. But&#8230; if proc A creates a temporary table and then (inside proc A) calls proc B that reads it, that&#39;s fine. Because nested procs can see &quot;temp&quot; tables created within outer scopes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut what about procs written in SQLCLR? If you&#39;re using the context connection in your SQLCLR proc, visibility in the inner proc works fine, regardless of whether:<br \/>\nprocs A and B are written in T-SQL<br \/>\nprocs A and B are written in SQLCLR<br \/>\nproc A is SQLCLR and B is T-SQL<br \/>\nproc A is T-SQL and B is SQLCLR\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHope that clarifies things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are sometimes concerned with the lifetime of temporary tables they create in CLR code. As an example, if I use a parameterized statement in .NET code, the&nbsp;SqlClient provider&nbsp;wraps the statement in exec sp_executesql. 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