How to retrieve field names from temporary table (SQL Server 2008)

Question

I\'m using SQL Server 2008. Say I create a temporary table like this one:

create table #MyTempTable (col1 int,col2 varchar(10))

How can I r

Answer 1

To use information_schema and not collide with other sessions:

select * 
from tempdb.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
where table_name =
    object_name(
        object_id('tempdb..#test'),
        (select database_id from sys.databases where name = 'tempdb'))