Inserting data into a temporary table

Question

After having created a temporary table and declaring the data types like so;

CREATE TABLE #TempTable(
ID int,
Date datetime,
Name char(20))

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Answer 1

To insert all data from all columns, just use this:

SELECT * INTO #TempTable
FROM OriginalTable

Don't forget to DROP the temporary table after you have finished with it and before you try creating it again:

DROP TABLE #TempTable