What's the preferred way to return an empty table in SQL?

Question

I know I can return an empty table using the following query :

select * from tbFoo where 1=2

but that code doesn't look nice to me.

Is there a 'standard' way of doing this?

If you're wondering why I want to do such a strange thing, it's because I can't name the datatables I return from a stored procedure, so I need empty placeholders.

Answer 1

Having just run both:

SELECT TOP 0 * FROM Table
and
SELECT * FROM Table WHERE 1=0

They produce exactly the same execution plan.