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Description

The DROP TEMPORARY VARIABLE statement drops a temporary variable. An exception will be thrown if the variable does not exist.

Syntax

DROP TEMPORARY VARIABLE [ IF EXISTS ] variable_name

Parameters

  • variable_name

    Specifies the name of an existing variable. The function name may be optionally qualified with a system.session or session.

    Syntax: [ system. [ session.] ] variable_name

  • IF EXISTS

    If specified, no exception is thrown when the variable does not exist.

Examples

-- Create a temporary variable var1
DECLARE VARIABLE var1 INT;

-- Drop temporary variable
DROP TEMPORARY VARIABLE var1;

-- Try to drop temporary variable which is not present
DROP TEMPORARY VARIABLE var1;
Error: VARIABLE_NOT_FOUND
The variable `system`.`session`.`var1` cannot be found.
  
-- Drop temporart variable if it exists
DROP TEMPORARY VARIABLE IF EXISTS var1;

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