sorry, on an initial thought, it sounded like setting up yet another database for temporary tables

thanks to other monks in this thread, I was able to get an overview of temp tables and it is not anyway a standing up another instance

so yes, I will work on temp tables. obviously, you monks -- @hippo and others are more experienced, if you have any other advice, I will greatly appreciate it...

What an odd and arbitrary restriction.

I'm beginning to think hippo, that this is either a wind up or the data is really coming from somewhere other than an RDBMS such as a flat or structured text file.