Thank You.  That is what I was hoping for.  I would assume that this would 
be faster than actually coming up with a random name, using srand and rand, 
for a table, creating it and deleting it when done.

Thanks
Steve Buehler

At 02:19 PM 4/8/2002, you wrote:
>Yes a TEMPORARY TABLE is specific to the connection
>if 100 people have the same name on a Temporary table
>they are still separate tables that only exist to the connection that
>created them.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Buehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 2:40 PM
>To: mysql
>Subject: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE
>
>
>         If I want to use temporary tables I know I can create tables that
>are
>unique without using "CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE table_name".  What I want to
>know, because it might be more efficient, is if I use "CREATE TEMPORARY
>TABLE table_name" and more than one person hits the page (I am using PHP to
>access the MySQL DB), does the second person have to wait until the first
>person is done and the temporary table is gone before the temporary table
>is created again, or is it unique for each connection.  Example: if 100
>people hit the page at the same time, will each have a temporary table
>called "table_name" that only their connection can see, meaning that there
>would actually be 100 tables with the same name?
>
>I sure hope that makes since.
>
>Thanks
>Steve Buehler
>
>
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