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

This worked for me: social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/transactsql/thread/02c6da90-954d-487d-a823-e24b891ec1b0?prof=required

if exists (
    select  * from tempdb.dbo.sysobjects o
    where o.xtype in ('U') 

   and o.id = object_id(N'tempdb..#tempTable')
)
DROP TABLE #tempTable;