MYSQL :: INSERT Values From One Table To Another

Insert Values Only If They Do Not Already Exist In Table
I want to insert some values from one table (A) into another table (b). However there are some values in table A which exist two times in table A. I only want to insert values one time. So If a certain field value also exist in some other row (same fieldname) then I don't want to insert it twice. It doesn't matter which of the two rows will be inserted.

Can this be done with MySQL? Maybe with some Control Flow Functions?

Query To Insert 2 Foreign Key Values In Table
I want to insert 2 foreign key values along with some other value into table ....

INSERT INTO Table (vars) VALUES(vals)
I am trying to use the following command:
INSERT INTO sr_main (originator,symreq) VALUES (A.Person,269);

Whenever I enter the command above I get the following error:
ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'A.Person' in 'field list'

I am confused because the error refers to my _value_ 'A.Person' as a column!? Do string values need to be surrounded with quote marks of some type? I have already tried the obvious (to me) quote markers, e.g. ", '

The data is accepted if I use this command:
INSERT INTO sr_main (originator) VALUES (269);

I actually have a lot more fields and values than shown, and ideally would like to use the command type:

INSERT INTO tablename (field1,field2,field3) VALUES (1,2,3)

Code:

Insert Table Values From Another Table
I have two tables: Users and metadata

Users:
id
userid
username

Metadata:
id
userid
value

I would like to extract a list of the userid's from the users table and enter them into the metadata table, with an additional value.

Example:
I want to take all of the userid's from the User table and insert them into the Metadata table, and make the value="one" for each entry into the Metadata table.

How To Randomly Insert Values?
Is there a statement that can randomly insert values into certain fields.

For example let's say I have 1000 records and I want to randomly insert the values 10, 20, 30 into certain fields.

INSERT Values From SELECT
This works: INSERT INTO content (group_id) SELECT max(id)+1 FROM content;

But how do I enter into more than one field?

This doesn't work.

INSERT INTO content (group_id, content_id) (SELECT max(id)+1 FROM content), 55;
OR
INSERT INTO content (group_id, content_id) VALUES ((SELECT max(id)+1 FROM content), 11);

You can't specify target table 'content' for update in FROM clause

Insert With Both Values And Select
I need to insert multiple values in a table I use an insertstatement like this one

insert into table(name, jobID) select 'Jon', id from jobs where name = 'programmer';

However, if I have a value before the condition like
insert into table (jobID, name) select id from jobs where name='programmer', 'jon2';

it does not work and I need such a statement to work cuz I get different data with a lot of fields and I do not know in advance which will be fields with have direct values and hich will ghave to get data from other tables

Insert A String Of Values
as you will see iam new to php/mysql and desparately require some help. My problem is as follows -
i need to enter a string of values from a list or selection of checkboxes into ONE field. Iam using dreamweaver and although it has the option for multiple entries it only inputs the first selected in a list. all i need it to do is be able to input for example beach facilities
- toilets, slipway, lifeguard
into one field from a list of facilities. i don't need to separate them at a later date as i will display them just as above. Your help will be greatly appreciated as it is a reg charity based website for marine wildlife that iam trying to construct.

INSERT (cols) VALUES (...), (...)
INSERT INTO labResults (labType, labValueAM, labValuePM, retest, labTest, sampleDate, RxNumber) VALUES ('saliva', '0.00', NULL, NULL, 'Estriol', '2006-02-24', '8888888') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE (labType, labValueAM, labValuePM, retest, labTest, sampleDate, RxNumber) VALUES ('saliva', '0.00', NULL, NULL, 'Estriol', '2006-02-24', '8888888');

That's what I'm trying to do, but I get a syntax error. What's wrong?

INSERT Values In Three Tables Using ID Column
how to insert values in different tables?

Table t1 got a column named "id" and this value should appear in t2.t1_id

In other words: How to fill all columns in all tables with one INSERT / UPDATE ?

t1

id bigint autoincrement
name varchar()
bla
bla

t1
id ....

How To Insert And Update Multiple Values In One Record
How do I insert and update multiple values in one record. e.g.

1. How do I insert "dogs,cats, snakes" in one record
2. If I have "dogs, cats, snakes" in one record and I want to update it and add 'pigs' to make it "dogs, cats, snakes, pigs", how do I do that?

How To Insert New Records Based On Previous Record Values?
I have
TABLE:

year
value

It has for example,

year, code, vlaue
2007, 33, 4883
2006, 33, 4883
2007, 32, 4883
2006, 32, 4883
2008, 31, 4883
2007, 31, 4883
2006, 31, 4883

I want to insert new records for for 2008 for all codes that do not already have a record for 2008 and increase the value for the 2008 record by 3%.

My several attempts have led to this but which does not work.

UPDATE TABLE a
SET a.value = b.value * 1.05
WHERE b.year = 2007
AND code NOT IN
(SELECT code
FROM TABLE b
WHERE year =2008
AND value !=0)

1 Simply Query Problem. Please Help With Insert Into 1 Table From Another Table
I have Table A that has some records already in and then I have Table B that does a few things and gets updated regularly.

With Table A, I want to get it updated every 8 hours or so with new data that has been inserted into Table B.

I will do this using the Cron.

But what would be the best insert query to use so that it does the process really quick.

The query that I have so far is:

Quote:

mysql_query("INSERT INTO table a (id, title, descrip) SELECT id, title, descrip FROM table b where app=1");

With the above query the id's match in both tables. But I only want the new records to be inserted into Table A where app=1 in Table B and the row is not already in Table A.

How can I add to the query so that it does this.

INSERTing Into A Table, With Values From Another Table
I'm programming a shopping cart application, where the products are categorized into different lines. I have a table that defines the different product lines, and now want to populate the product table.

However, the text file with the products in it, which I will use to populate the products table, uses the line NAME for each product, when I wish to use the line ID instead. To get the line ID, I would need to get the value from the line table.

My question is: is it possible to populate the products table with data from the products text file, as well as a column from the lines table?

That is, the INSERT (or LOAD DATA) statement will insert column values from the text file, but the line id from the lines table instead of the line name found in the file (WHERE line name = line name in the lines table).

I'm still not sure whether to use an INSERT, and write PHP code to go through the text file, or to use LOAD DATA for this task, because I don't know which statement would support what I'm looking for.

Update One Table Value With Values From Another Table
I am trying to update one table value with values from another table, and I cannot get it to work. What am I doing wrong?

This is my SQL-command:
UPDATE tabel1 SET tabel1.name=tabel2.name WHERE tabel1.ID=tabel2.ID

Inserting Values From 1 Table Into Another Table
I have 2 tables: A and B
Table A contains fields u, x and y
Table B contains fields u and z

Table A has all possible variations of u.
Table B has some of the varaiations of u in it.

My problem is that I'm trying to insert the z-values from Table B into Table A's y field and link them up based on the u-values.

I'm running into problems like truncating at row 0.

I've tried the following queries:

update TableA set y =(select TableB.z from TableB where TableA.u=TableB.u)

update TableA,TableB set TableA.y =(select TableB.z from TableB where TableA.u=TableB.u)

Insert New Rows With Qty Values From Existing Rows
I am trying to make all my products unique in my db.
Lets say I have a row with an id, it also has all relevant details about the product and it has a quantity value of 4.
What I would like to do is take the entire row and duplicate it by the number of the quantity field.
This would result in the same product 4 times instead of one product with qty of 4.
Reason, I am going to serialise all the products so that they each have unique barcode from the id field.
I will encounter the reverse issue when running an insert statement for inputting new data, i.e. insert a new row for each item depending on its qty value??

Add Values To Table
I have a table tblMailingList. It has 3 columns; Name, EmailAdd, AutoID.

I am using
mysql> INSERT INTO pet
-> VALUES ('name1','u@me.com');

but I am unsure as to what to do for the AutoID field. If I use the example given, the error message says that the number of fields is different.
How do I get this info into my table?

Update A Table With Values In Another
I have the following table

tableA
column_a
column_x
column_y
column_z

tableB
column_x
column_y
column_z

How do I update the rows of tableA that match rows of tableB (all rows
of tableB are unique)

What I want to acheive is a check against tableA.column_x with
tableB.column_x, if they match, then update the row in tableA.column_y
with the value of tableB.column_y and tableA.column_z with
tableB.column_z

Edit Values In Table Through GUI
I wonder which GUI tool I can use if I want to edit some values in a table? I can't find it in Query Browser. Do I really need to execute SQL to make a simple change to a field?

Update Table Values
I have a csv.txt file with contacts and their information in it. Then I also have a table in mysql with the same contacts and their various information. I need to merge these to so that if a field value in the database is NULL the value that is in the csv.txt file is inserted into the database field.

I have been looking at the mySQL site on how to do this but have not been able to produce a working solution. Below is a more detailed example of what I am looking for. Code:

Returning Values That Are In One Table, But Not In Another
I'm looking for a query to return values which occur in one table, but not in the other.

Say we have two tables (table_1, table_2) each with a column titled "appointments".

I want a list of results for appointments which are in table_1, but not in table_2

I have tried the following, but all I get is a huge list of duplicate appointments which occur in both tables:

SELECT table_1.appointments
FROM table_1, table_2
WHERE table_1.appointments<>table_2.appointments;

I've also tried 'NOT IN' for this but the result was just the same.

Get The 3 Highest Values From A Table
My problem is to get the 3 highest values from a table

Editing Values In A Table
I just moved from SQL Server to MySQL and in the Enterprise Manager in SQL Server I could query the entire table and then modify the values with the table without writing an UPDATE statement.
I cannot do that in one of my tables because the EDIT at the bottom is greyed out. There are other tables where I can make a modification to any value I want within the table.

Ignoring Rows According To Values In Another Table
I have the following query:

Inserting Values Into A Mapping Table
I am using a mapping table with two primary keys (ID1, ID2). When I try to insert data into this table I get the following error:
Quote:

Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_myTable'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.myTable'. The statement has been terminated.

I am able however to insert values if I do it directly into my table.
Here is an excerpt of my

comm = New SqlCommand( _
"INSERT INTO myTable (ID1, ID2) " & _
"VALUES (@ID1, @ID2)", conn)
' Add command parameters
comm.Parameters.Add("@ID1", System.Data.SqlDbType.Int)
comm.Parameters("@ID1").Value = ID1List.SelectedItem.Value
comm.Parameters.Add("@ID2", System.Data.SqlDbType.Int)
comm.Parameters("@ID2").Value = ID2List.SelectedItem.Value

Generating A Table With Missing Values In SQL
I have the following table:

+------+------+------+-----------+
|ID |GROUP |CODE |ANSWER |
+------+------+------+-----------+
|1 |1 |001 |01-01-2003 |
|2 |1 |002 |Yes |
|3 |1 |003 |NA |
|4 |1 |004 |297797 |
|5 |1 |005 |0 |
|6 |2 |002 |Yes |
|7 |2 |004 |297852 |
|8 |2 |005 |1 |
+------+------+------+-----------+

This means that code 001 and 003 of group 2 are missing. Result of the
query should be:

+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
|GROUP |ANSWER1 |ANSWER2 |ANSWER3 |ANSWER4 |ANSWER5 |
+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
|1 |01-01-2003 |Yes |NA |297797 |0 |
|2 |NULL |Yes |NULL |297852 |1 |
+-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+

The missing values should be replaced by a NULL value in my resultset.
Is this possible? I don't have any clue how my query should look like,
can anyone help me and show me a solution?

Eliminating Double Values From A Table
I need to consolidate data from many adress databases, which i allready sucessfully put into one table1. As Newbie i am reviing the Manuals and tutorials, but in 2 days i learned a lot about the powerfull command, but not how to solve the following question:

Is there a straight forward method to copy data from one table1 into the other table2, but not those rowse, which have same value in Fieldx.

All my Update and INSERT SELECT experiments somehow created more then less data in the target table.

Update Query Where Values Will Come From Other Table
I'm creating an update query which the value will come from another table.

I have here my current query which unfortunately makes the system hangs. Probably because of the query itself is not properly coded.

update boxes b inner join messages m
on b.ctnnumber = m.ctnno
set b.consigneerecv = m.CName,
b.consigneerecvdate = m.DateRcv,
b.phrecventered = "Y",
b.PhilStatus = "delivered",
b.prevreleasestatus = b.releasestatus,
b.releasestatus = "delivered",
b.PhilStatusDate = m.smsrecvdate,
b.phdelprice = "0.00",
b.phdelamt = "0.00",
b.recvrelation = m.Relation,
b.APRecventered = m.smsRecvDate
where b.consigneerecv = ''
or b.consigneerecv = 'NA'
or b.consigneerecv is null;

I'm thinking revising it so that it will not cause the system to hang but I don't know how. Guys please help me with this one. I also have this another idea which probably will not work. My idea was something like this:

Update table1 set table1.column1 = (select table2.column1 where table2.column1 = table1.column1),
table1.column2 = (select table2.column2 where table2.column1 = table1.column1), .....

Updating A Table To Increment Values
Question, if I want to update all values in a certain column to increment by one, what statement could I use? In quasi-MySQL, this is my pseudocode:

UPDATE table SET fields=[previous_val+1] where [previous_val]>[my_val]

Or do I HAVE to run a SELECT query, increment the value, and THEN Update it?

I was just thinking there'd be an easier way.

Accepting Values As NULL When Not In Another Table
Is it possible to perform a SELECT query on multiple tables and simply accept one of the values as NULL if not in another table rather than the whole query failing?

For instance, if "rec_id" exists in "table_1" for certain but it is uncertain if it exists in "table_2", is it possible to return the query with a variable assignment stating whether "rec_id" was or wasn't found in "table_2"?

I am hoping I can do this without a LEFT OUTER JOIN as the query is fairly complex and involves five different tables. Whenever results are fetched I simply need to know if rec_id is or isn't in table_2 if it is found in table_1.

As there are frequently over 10,000 result rows returned it wouldn't be sound to put this into a seperate loop that queries with each rec_id to see if it is in table_2.

I have tried "SELECT table_1.rec_id, table_2.rec_id FROM table_1, table_2 WHERE table_2.rec_id=table_1.rec_id OR table_2.rec_id IS NULL" but this returns no records.

An Enum Field Using Values From Another Table
The first table, called genus, contains several fields, the important one in genus is name, and there are others about the individual plant types.

The second table 'plants' needs one field for the genus name, so that I can link tables on this. If there a way to make a foreign key from the genus table into an enum field on the second? My idea is that then, with phpmyadmin or similar I can just select the genus name from a list when entering new plant data.

Renumber Mysql Table Values
There are 100000 rows in a table, I need to renumber them from
1,3,6,8,11,14,21,55,888,1000,9999...99999
to
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14...
etc
I also need to update an associated table, so its going to need to lock the tables, find the lowest available index in table1, then update table1 index, and then update table2 to use the same index as well, then unlock tables

What would be the procedure to do that?

Returning All Unique Values From A Table Field
I wrote a select that works fine but I am looking at it and thinking that the query might require mysql to scan EVERY row before giving me my answer.

Lets pretend I have a table with fruits and want to return all the available colors of those fruits that I currently have in the database.

Is this an efficient or horribly inefficient statement?

"select color from fruits group by color"

It seems to return what I want:

fruits:
------
blue
green
yellow
...

I am just wondering if it goes through EVERY row and groups them?
If I have the table indexed by color am I allright?

Replace Some Username Values With The Users ID In A Different Table
I really can't figure this out. I want to replace some username values with the users ID in a different table.

The tables are

pictures
user (Example FRED)
picture (Example pic.gif)

users
id (Example 5233)
user (Example FRED)

What I want to do is replace the user column in pictures with the correct id from the users table

So in the pictures table, it would no longer be FRED it would be 5233

Is there a query I can run to do this?

I'd really appreciate some feedback

Counting Occurrences Of Values In Table Column.
I have two tables;

Table 1;

Agent_ID UserID First_Name Last_Name

1ShadShad Mortazavi
2Harry Harry Potter
Table 2;

Recording_IDAgent_ID Status GSM_File etc
11 000001.gsm
21 0 00002.gsm
32 100003.gsm
41 200004.gsm
51 100005.gsm
61 200006.gsm
72 100007.gsm

Status 0 = Red, 1 = Yellow and 2 = Green

I would like a query that returns the number of occurrences of Red, Yellow, Green against each agent

so the data returned would look something like this;

NameREDYellow Green
Shad Mortazavi 2 0 2
Harry Potter 0 2 0

I'm using MySQL version 3.23.58

I can do this programmatically in Perl with several query's; but this is CPU intensive. If I could get this in one query I it would save time.

Selecting Unique Values From A Table (NOT DISTINCT!)
Lets say we have a table that has the field photo_id and has values of it many times. For example 245 can exist any number of times (1, 5, 8, e.t.c.).

I want to select the values that exist in the table ONLY ONCE. Please note that i dont want to select each value once (using DISTINCT), that would return all the values that exist in the table.

For example lets say the table has the following values:

245
563
776
224
563
563
776
776
776
776

The query i want to make should return only the values 245 and 224 as 563 and 776 exist many times in that table.

Date/Time As A Default Values For A Table Column
I am new to mySQL, so this question might be simple.I want to add a default value to a column that is the current date/time. I am using the mySQL Administrator and will not allow me to use a function like CURRENT_TIMESTAMP() or NOW() as a default value. I used to do this with other databases (I always add a column to all of my tables called InsertDateTime and UpdateDateTime. It helps to track down data entry problems)

Updating Column With Sumned Values For Each Record In Table
I have most of the query formulated, but am stuck on the portion where I need to specify which records to update. I want to update all the records in the table. How can I specify the request_id to be the same in both the select and update statement?

Here's the query I'm working on:

Code:

update enhancementrequests2 set
hardBenefitEffortSavings = (SELECT hardBenefitEffortSavings + hardBenefitLaborSavings + hardBenefitHardwareSoftwareSavings
+ hardBenefitOtherSavings AS hbTotal
FROM enhancementrequests where request_id = 1), hardBenefitLaborSavings = NULL, hardBenefitHardwareSoftwareSavings = NULL,
hardBenefitOtherSavings = NULL
where request_id = 1

In my example I have specified that request_id = 1, but I want request_id to match each row of the table in turn. I hope that makes sense.

Insert Into Different Table
I have two tables and i want join the two of the primary id's in to one
table. the database is mysql.

ex.

Table Item (ID int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment)
Table Actor(ID int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment)

to go in to
Table actor_item(actor_id, item_id)

is it select then insert or what

Insert Into $table
function write_comment($name, $text) {
$sql = "insert into 16(name,text)
values('$name','$text')";

this doesnt work but if i change 16 to something with letters instead of numbers it works... how can i make it insert into a table with a name only in numbers!?

INSERT To TABLE
i am having a horrible time getting my script to accept variables please help

$sql = 'INSERT INTO `table` (`first`, `last`, `phone`)
VALUES ("$first", "$last", "$phone")';

all it does is put these actual terms in for values instead of accepting the data that comes from.

INSERT INTO TABLE
I have a table named A which has all the columns of table B plus some other columns, I want to insert data in to A from B however during this update I also want to set the values for the columns in A that are not in B how can I write the SQL syntax for the same?

I tried this but this wont work obviously

INSERT INTO A( CATEGORY, GROUPID, GROUPTITLE, ALBUMID, ALBUMTITLE, DEFAULTTHUMB, TFILE, BFILE, TITLE, DESCR, PIC_LOCK )
VALUES (
'Nature', 'BUF', 'BUFFALO', 'LETCHWORTH', 'Letchworth Park, NY', '', (

SELECT TFILE, BFILE, TITLE, DESCR, PIC_LOCK
FROM B

Insert Into A Table
Is there a way to insert into one table a particular row from another table in one statement? Both tables are identical in terms of columns. Or do I have to select * from the latter and insert into values() into the first table?

Insert Into A Dynamic Table
I would like to create the table that holds a variable number of columns for each row.

I have created the table as ROW_TYPE=DYNAMIC, however I can't figure out how to insert new rows correctly into this table. It seems to still only want the exact number of columns.

How To Insert Into The Middle Of A Table
I've been trying to insert at new row into a certian point into a
table without look.

what I'm looking for is actually the opposite of "SELECT something FROM
mytable WHERE id=some_number" .... I wanna do it the other way around so
I can search a table for a certion number in the id-field and insert
a new rowbeneath that... the id-numbers stay the same, no change is
needed there..

any know how to do this? a short a method as possible as I'm trying to
make script as fast as possible.

Insert Row Into Existing Table
I have a table with rougly 70 threads, I now need to go back and insert a couple new entries into my table, but they cant go at the end, they need to go in the middle, say like ID 40,41,and 42. How do I do this?

Select From Table Before Insert
I am trying to create a trigger that will select the value for an integer from the table on which the insert is occuring, increment it by one, and insert the value into the new row on the same table. Basically, we have a user referral id. I want to grab the rank of the referral user, increment it, and insert it into the rank of the new user. i cannot figure out how to do this for the life of me. Code: