Multiple choice technology databases

A declared temporary table is used for which of the following purposes?

  1. Backup purposes

  2. Storing intermediate results

  3. Staging area for load operations

  4. Sharing result data sets between applications

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Declared temporary tables are specifically designed to store intermediate or transient results during complex processing operations. Unlike regular tables, they exist only for the duration of a session or transaction and are automatically dropped afterward. They are not meant for backup (use backup utilities), load staging (use external staging tables), or sharing between applications (use regular tables or shared schemas). Their purpose is to hold partial results during multi-step data transformations, complex calculations, or query processing.

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