Error

Statement 'SELECT INTO' is not supported in this version of SQL Server. (see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlazure/archive/2010/05/04/10007212.aspx for more information)

Cause

SQL Azure requires that all tables have clustered indexes therefore SELECT INTO statements, which creates a table and does not support the creation of clustered indexes. If you plan to migrate to SQL Azure, you need to modify your code to use table creation instead of the SELECT INTO Statement. This goes for both temporary tables (where clustered indexes are not required) and permanent tables.

Fix

To work around this you need to create your destination table then call INSERT INTO. Here is an example:

CREATE TABLE #Destination (Id int NOT NULL, [Name] nvarchar(max), [Color] nvarchar(10))



INSERT INTO #Destination(Id, [Name], [Color])

SELECT Id, [Name], [Color]

FROM Source

WHERE [Color] LIKE 'Red';



-- Do Something



DROP TABLE #Destination

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