Select into a temporary table in Oracle

Question

I am trying to do something like the following,

select * into temp from (select * from student);

It gives me the following error,

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00905: missing keyword

In my real example the subquery (select * from student) is more complex.

I want to use this in a stored procedure, so I don't want to create the table itself. I just want to make my code more readable by using a temp table.

Answer 1

If the table temp does not exist, you have to create it.

 CREATE TABLE temp as
    SELECT * FROM student;