I am reading through some code and came across the following lines:

await connection.ExecuteAsync("CREATE TABLE #TempTable (Col1 NVARCHAR(20), Col2 NVARCHAR(20))", transaction: transaction);
await connection.BulkInsertAsync("INSERT INTO #TempTable VALUES (@Col1,@Col2) ...", transaction: transaction);

If I try pasting the above statements into SSMS, I get a message Incorrect syntax near '.'. ; however, it seems to work just fine here. I'd like to figure out what this is doing to know whether or not it's safe to remove.