Local temporary tables
- visible only to their creators during the same connection to an instance of SQL Server
- deleted after the user disconnects from the instance of SQL Server
- local temporary table name is stared with hash
("#"
) sign.
Create temporary table
Global temporary tables
- visible to any user and any connection after they are created
- deleted when all users that are referencing the table disconnect from the instance of SQL Server
- global Temporary tables name starts with a double hash (
"##"
)