How do I insert into existing Temp table?

Hi,

How do I insert data into an existing temporary table? Note: Im primarily a .NET programmer who has to do T-SQL to grab data from time to time.

What I am trying to do is this:
1) Put the scores for all the people who have completed a questionnaire into a temporary table called #GroupConfidence.
2) Add on a row at the end that gives an average for each score (ie the last row is an average of the column above).

I need my SP to give me a DataSet that I can throw straight to my .NET reporting engine (I dont want to do any number crunching inside .NET) - that's why I want to add on the 'average' row at the end.

If I do this (below) the temporary table (#GroupConfidence) gets created and the values inserted.

-- Insert the results into the #GroupConfidence table
SELECT RTRIM(UC.FirstName + ' ' + UC.LastName) AS 'FullName',
RP.SubmitID,
RP.GL_Score,
RP.GP_Score,
RP.GPH_Score,
RP.DL_Score,
RP.MP_Score,
RP.Role_MI_Score,
RP.Role_ASXRE_Score,
RP.Role_APRA_Score,
RP.Overall_Score AS 'AllCategories'
INTO #GroupConfidence
FROM RodResultPercentages RP
JOIN #UsersCompleted UC ON UC.SubmitID = RP.SubmitID

My problem is that #GroupConfidence already exists so in fact I have this code below:

CREATE TABLE #GroupConfidence
( [FullName] [varchar] (200) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL,
[SubmitID] [int] NOT NULL,
[GL_Score] [decimal](19, 10) NOT NULL,
[GP_Score] [decimal](19, 10) NOT NULL,
[GPH_Score] [decimal](19, 10) NOT NULL,
[DL_Score] [decimal](19, 10) NOT NULL,
[MP_Score] [decimal](19, 10) NOT NULL,
[Role_MI_Score] [decimal](19, 10) NOT NULL,
[Role_ASXRE_Score] [decimal](19, 10) NOT NULL,
[Role_APRA_Score] [decimal](19, 10) NOT NULL,
[AllCategories] [decimal](19, 10) NOT NULL
)

-- Insert the results into the #GroupConfidence table
SELECT RTRIM(UC.FirstName + ' ' + UC.LastName) AS 'FullName',
RP.SubmitID,
RP.GL_Score,
RP.GP_Score,
RP.GPH_Score,
RP.DL_Score,
RP.MP_Score,
RP.Role_MI_Score,
RP.Role_ASXRE_Score,
RP.Role_APRA_Score,
RP.Overall_Score AS 'AllCategories'
INTO #GroupConfidence
FROM RodResultPercentages RP
JOIN #UsersCompleted UC ON UC.SubmitID = RP.SubmitID

So I get this error: Server: Msg 2714, Level 16, State 1, Line 109
There is already an object named '#GroupConfidence' in the database.

Thanks in advance,

Ian.SELECT .... INTO <NEWTABLE> FROM <ANOTHER TABLE> will create the table and then insert the rows of the SELECT statement. You are getting the error because first you had created the table using "CREATE TABLE" statement then again are using SELECT ... INTO statment to create the table and insert the rows.

If you want to perform CREATE and INSERT operations in two statements then you can execute below statements:

CREATE TABLE #GroupConfidence ...

INSERT INTO #GroupConfidence SELECT RTRIM(UC.FirstName + ' ' + UC.LastName) AS 'FullName',
RP.SubmitID,
RP.GL_Score,
RP.GP_Score,
RP.GPH_Score,
RP.DL_Score,
RP.MP_Score,
RP.Role_MI_Score,
RP.Role_ASXRE_Score,
RP.Role_APRA_Score,
RP.Overall_Score AS 'AllCategories' FROM RodResultPercentages RP
JOIN #UsersCompleted UC ON UC.SubmitID = RP.SubmitID

Hope the above helps you.|||EXCELLENT - I knew it had to be simple. But unless you know it just isn't going to happen.

So thanks for this.

Ian.

:D

How do I get uppercase values returned only.

I have a table where inactive names are lower case and active names are
uppercase. Note: Not my design.

Anyways I want to select all names form this table where the name is
uppercase. I see collate and ASCII pop up in searches but the examples
don't seem usable in queries as much as they were for creating tables
and such.

Thanks,
Philselect * from mytable where name = upper(name)

Joe Weinstein at BEA|||No luck with that

Here is my query
SELECT *, last_nme AS Expr1, first_nme AS Expr2
FROM members
WHERE (last_nme = UPPER(last_nme))
ORDER BY last_nme, first_nme

I still see lower case names.|||I fixed it with this
where ASCII(last_nme) = (ASCII(UPPER(last_nme))

Thanks for the responses.
Phil|||As Phillip found out... this will only work if you have set your
instance of SQL Server set to be case-sensitive. The default
installation makes the instance NOT case-sensitive.

-Tom.|||Phillip (pputzback@.ECommunity.com) writes:
> No luck with that
> Here is my query
> SELECT *, last_nme AS Expr1, first_nme AS Expr2
> FROM members
> WHERE (last_nme = UPPER(last_nme))
> ORDER BY last_nme, first_nme
> I still see lower case names.

This should do it:

SELECT *, last_nme AS Expr1, first_nme AS Expr2
FROM members
WHERE last_nme COLLATE Finnish_Swedish_CS_AS =
UPPER(last_nme) COLLATE Finnish_Swedish_CS_AS
ORDER BY last_nme, first_nme

You may prefer to use something else than Finnish_Swedish. It's the
CS_AS part that is the important.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se

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