"J A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/01/2006 11:08:10 AM: > Does MySQL have support for temporary tables inside stored procedures? > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > >
Yes, you can create and destroy temporary tables from within stored procedures. Remember that all temporary tables and user variables are connection-specific. You have to maintain the connection between SPROC executions to have the results of one SPROC be available to the next. Drop a connection and your user variables and temporary tables created by that connection go away (garbage collected by the server). The obverse situation is also true. Using a pooled connection may result in object carry-over from one process to another (because returning the connection to the pool does may not actually drop the connection). You should always destroy any temporary object when you are through using it and always initialize your variables before usage. That way you don't accidentally hand old data off to following threads and you don't inherit previous threads state values (unless you really want them). Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine
