Dynamic Tables Names and Temporary Tables Options

[brstowe]

Firstly I consider myself quite an experienced SQL Server user, and
am
now using SQL Server 2005 Express for the main backend of my
software.

My problem is thus: The boss needs to run reports; I have designed
these reports as SQL procedures, to be executed through an ASP
application. Basic, and even medium sized (10,000+ records) reporting
run at an acceptable speed, but for anything larger, IIS timeouts and
query timeouts often cause problems.
I subsequently came up with the idea that I could reduce processing
times by up to two-thirds by writing information from each
calculation
stage to a number of tables as the reporting procedure runs..
ie. stage 1, write to table xxx1,
stage 2 reads table xxx1 and writes to table xxx2,
stage 3 reads table xxx2 and writes to table xxx3,
etc, etc, etc
procedure read final table, and outputs information.
This works wonderfully, EXCEPT that two people can't run the same
report at the same time, because as one procedure creates and writes
to table xxx2, the other procedure tries to drop the table, or read a
table that has already been dropped....
Does anyone have any suggestions about how to get around this
problem?
I have thought about generating the table names dynamically using
'sp_execute', but the statement I need to run is far too long
(apparently there is a maximum length you can pass to it), and even
breaking it down into sub-procedures is soooooooooooooo oo time
consuming and inefficient having to format statements as strings
(replacing quotes and so on)
How can I use multiple tables, or indeed process HUGE procedures,
with
dynamic table names, or temporary tables?
All answers/suggestions/questions gratefully received.
Thanks

[Ed Murphy]

brstowe wrote:

How can I use multiple tables, or indeed process HUGE procedures,
with
dynamic table names, or temporary tables?

Isn't this your answer right here? Just CREATE TABLE #foo instead
of CREATE TABLE foo, etc. and each process will get their own local
version of the #foo table.

[brstowe]

On Oct 5, 7:07 pm, Ed Murphy <emurph...@soca l.rr.comwrote:

brstowe wrote:

How can I use multiple tables, or indeed process HUGE procedures,
with
dynamic table names, or temporary tables?

Isn't this your answer right here? Just CREATE TABLE #foo instead
of CREATE TABLE foo, etc. and each process will get their own local
version of the #foo table.

please be honest and tell me if I have completely misunderstood.. .?
the temporary tables are session/process/user specific...

two users could essentially create/drop tables, and populate/delete
information from tables with exactly the name e.g. #temptable1 at
exactly the same time?

thanks