How to join two tables together with same number of rows by their order

Question

I am using SQL2000 and I would like to join two table together based on their positions

For example consider the following 2 tables:

table1
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name
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Answer 1

in 2000 you will either have to run 2 forward only cursors and insert into a temp table. or insert the values into a temp table with an extra identity column and join the 2 temp tables on the identity field