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Answer : Add an identity to your table variable, and do an easy loop from 1 to the @@ROWCOUNT of the INSERT-SELECT. Try this: DECLARE @RowsToProcess int DECLARE @CurrentRow int DECLARE @SelectCol1 int DECLARE @table1 TABLE (RowID int not null primary key identity(1,1), col1 int ) INSERT into @table1 (col1) SELECT col1 FROM table2 SET @RowsToProcess=@@ROWCOUNT SET @CurrentRow=0 WHILE @CurrentRow<@RowsToProcess BEGIN SET @CurrentRow=@CurrentRow+1 SELECT @SelectCol1=col1 FROM @table1 WHERE RowID=@CurrentRow --do your thing here-- END DECLARE @table1 TABLE ( idx int identity(1,1), col1 int ) DECLARE @counter int SET @counter = 1 WHILE(@counter < SELECT MAX(idx) FROM @table1) BEGIN DECLARE @colVar INT SELECT @colVar = col1 FROM @table1 WHERE idx = @counter -- Do your work here SET @counter = @counter + 1 END Believe it or not, this is actually more efficient and performant than using a cursor. ...

Answer : The question is tagged SQL Server 2000 but for the benefit of people developing on the latest version I'll address that first. SQL Server 2014 In addition to the methods of adding constraint based indexes discussed below SQL Server 2014 also allows non unique indexes to be specified directly with inline syntax on table variable declarations. Example syntax for that is below. /*SQL Server 2014+ compatible inline index syntax*/ DECLARE @T TABLE ( C1 INT INDEX IX1 CLUSTERED, /*Single column indexes can be declared next to the column*/ C2 INT INDEX IX2 NONCLUSTERED, INDEX IX3 NONCLUSTERED(C1,C2) /*Example composite index*/ ); Filtered indexes and indexes with included columns can not currently be declared with this syntax however SQL Server 2016 relaxes this a bit further. From CTP 3.1 it is now possible to declare filtered indexes for table variables. By RTM it may be the case that included columns are also allowed but the current position is that they "will ...