Check if a temporary table exists and delete if it exists before creating a temporary table

Question

I am using the following code to check if the temporary table exists and drop the table if it exists before creating again. It works fine as long as I don\'t change the colu

Answer 1

The statement should be of the order

1. Alter statement for the table
2. GO
3. Select statement.

Without 'GO' in between, the whole thing will be considered as one single script and when the select statement looks for the column,it won't be found.

With 'GO' , it will consider the part of the script up to 'GO' as one single batch and will execute before getting into the query after 'GO'.