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## Best Practice
Do not apply SQL-specific findings such as missing `SetLoadFields`, lock contention, or N+1 database round-trips to a temporary record. Still assess memory volume and repeated scans or lookups. For a pure key-to-value collection, consider an AL `Dictionary`; keep a temporary table when record fields, keys, filtering, or ordered iteration are required.
Do not apply SQL-specific findings such as missing `SetLoadFields`, lock contention, or N+1 database round-trips to a temporary record. Still assess memory volume and repeated scans or lookups. In a matrix, if each cell re-sums the same group, calculate the totals once at the complete group key and reuse them; invalidate or adjust totals if cells change. For a pure key-to-value collection, consider an AL `Dictionary`; keep a temporary table when record fields, keys, filtering, or ordered iteration are required. Measure AL time and peak memory, not just SQL time.
See sample: [`temporary-tables-have-no-database-cost.good.al`](temporary-tables-have-no-database-cost.good.al).
## Anti Pattern
Claiming that every temporary-table access pattern is free because no SQL is involved. A nested scan over a large in-memory buffer can still dominate service-tier CPU, while adding `SetLoadFields` to that buffer addresses a database cost that does not exist.
See sample: [`temporary-tables-have-no-database-cost.bad.al`](temporary-tables-have-no-database-cost.bad.al).