Why does SQL Server thinks a Temp Table already exists when it doesn't?

Question

Background: There\'s a stored procedure which does \"stuff\" with a temp table of a given name. The procedure is generic in that it inspects the schema of the temp table and

Answer 1

since i dont have sql 2008, i cannot test it. however as far as i know, this is a parser issue explicitly with temp tables. the same would work fine with normal tables

to sort this out, just split your code with logical GO statements

ideally: check for existence of temp tables before you create your temp tables, drop them if they exist, fire a go, do the creation of temp tables again, fire a go, then any post processing, fire a go, finally drop them again and fire the last go

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you might also want to try and use the table variable instead of temp tables if above does not solve it for you