MYSQL :: Updating Table After Doing Multiple INSERT

Mysqldump, Entire Table In One Insert, But Multiple Lines
I'm aware of the recent mysqldump change, in that it now by default
enables some optimizations.
One of those optimizations is to use single insert statements, instead
of separate insert statements, each on their own lines.
I'm also aware of the --skip-opt / -e / --skip-extended-insert

But what I'd like is a combination of having a single insert statement,
but with each record in its own line, like so:

INSERT INTO `article` (`id`, `title`, `text`) VALUES
(1, 'test', 'this is a test'),
(2, 'test2', 'also a test');

--skip-opt or --skip-extended-insert isn't it, because that'll give me:

INSERT INTO `article` (`id`, `title`, `text`) VALUES (1, 'test', 'this
is a test');
INSERT INTO `article` (`id`, `title`, `text`) VALUES (2, 'test2', 'also
a test');

Updating Multiple Tables
My webserver is running an older version of MySQL (3.23.56 ). I am trying to update a table based on criteria from two tables, and I can't seem to get the syntax quite right. Here is what I tried:

UPDATE (member, unit)
SET member.status_id = 3 WHERE member.unit_id = unit.unit_id AND unit.etime > 0

Does anyone know an older syntax to do this?

Updating Multiple Rows
The following UPDATE query works fine if run directly into phpMyAdmin (I take the $sql output of the script with the data in it and paste it into phpMyAdmin).

But it doesn't update my records if run from the PHP script. I can't seem to figure out where the bug is: Code:

Updating Multiple Rows
I need to update multipule rows a once, using PHP. Here's what I mean.

I have a mysql query out put the data as a form like this:

Item 1
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="1">
<input type="text" name="order" value="">

Item 2
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="3">
<input type="text" name="order" value="">

Item 3
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="4">
<input type="text" name="order" value="">
<input type="submit">

Order need to be updated. I could setup to do a loop with multiple queries.

Updating Multiple Rows
I am running the following UPDATE statement

UPDATE history
set t_own = t_user * 0.75
where user_cur = 7
and lg = 'Local'

t_own and t_user are defined as DECIMAL 12,2

650 rows should be updated, but i get

error 1136 Column count doesn't match value count at row 1.

Updating Multiple Rows.
I went to MySQL home page and found one comment that kind of tried to explain it but it was written in such a manner that I could make no sense of it at all.
I am trying to find a way to update a row with 12 entries in a table that has 12 teams (teamid) and 12 ranks (r1,r2,r3...r12) the data to update the teamid comes from a form and they would all be updated (unless everything remains the same) with the use of the said form.
I am not certain how to make this work (call the table 'team')

PHP Code:

UPDATE team SET teamid='team1', teamid='team2'...teamid='team12' WHERE?

Insert Multiple Rows With One Insert Stmt And Nested Select
I'm trying to insert several rows into a table using only one insert statement:

insert into component_feature values (select 3,1,sf.software_feature_id,1 from software_feature sf where sf.software_id = 1)

When I run the select statement alone, I get the result I want:

+---+---+---------------------+---+
| 3 | 1 | software_feature_id | 1 |
+---+---+---------------------+---+
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
+---+---+---------------------+---+

But when I run the complete statement I get:

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'select 3,1,sf.software_feature_id,1 from software_feature sf where sf.software_i' at line 1

This query is part of a PHP application I'm building. I'd rather not have to write a PHP loop to do multiple inserts.

Updating Multiple Rows In One Query
tried to find the answer with search but didn't return any answers.

OK, here is the table

table test
------------------------
| test_id | test_order |
------------------------
| 1 | 1 |
------------------------
| 2 | 2 |
------------------------
| 3 | 3 |
------------------------
I'm trying to change the orders in one query, but not sure how to do that.

phpMyAdmin shows me the code like this

Quote:

$sql =
'UPDATE `test` SET `test_order` = ƈ' WHERE `test_id` = 1;'
'UPDATE `test` SET `test_order` = Ɖ' WHERE `test_id` = 2;'
'UPDATE `test` SET `test_order` = Ƈ' WHERE `test_id` = 3;'
. ' '

I'v tried that but got a syntax error.

MySQL version is 4.0.26, can anyone help please?

Select / Insert Multiple Rows As A Single Row Of Multiple Columns
I have a nice database set up that contains information about orders and the items on those orders. If an order has 10 items on it, I can select the item data which returns 10 rows of data (let's say 5 colums each). Beautiful!

Now I find myself needing to satisfy a program that requires all of the data on a single row. I can do this in a higher level language, but if I could accomplish it all in mysql it would be better.

I don't need to sum or do any calculations. I just want to select those 5 columns of data about those 10 rows worth of items as a single row with 50 columns.

For example, I'd want this:
1-1,1-2,1-3,1-4,1-5
2-1,2-2,2-3,2-4,2-5

To become:
1-1,1-2,1-3,1-4,1-5,2-1,2-2,2-3,2-4,2-5

The first complication is that the number of items on an order is variable, but is always at least 1 and can not exceed 20. The closest I've been able to get is to do something like:

SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(item_number,",",qty,","",description,"",",price,",",location_number SEPARATOR ",") FROM items WHERE order_number=12345

This will give me a single text string containing the value content of the INSERT query (which will need to be manipuated outside of the SQL query to pad it with NULL values for the unused items' columns etc).

Updating Multiple Rows With Same Fields (in One Query?)
I have 2 tables here

table categories

+--------------------------------------- +
| cat_id | cat_name | cat_total_articles |
+----------------------------------------+
| 1 | PHP | 23 |
+----------------------------------------+
| 2 | MySQL | 17 |
+----------------------------------------+
table articles

+---------------------------- +
| article_id | article_cat_id |
+-----------------------------+
| 1 | 1 |
+-----------------------------+
| 2 | 2 |
+-----------------------------+
Now I've changed an article's category from cat1 to cat2, and I need to update cat_total_articles of both cat1 (minus 1) and cat2 (plus 1) in category table.

Is it possible to combine the following queries into one statement?

PHP

mysql_query("UPDATE categories
SET cat_total_articles = cat_total_articles + 1
WHERE cat_id = 2");

PHP

mysql_query("UPDATE categories
SET cat_total_articles = cat_total_articles - 1
WHERE cat_id = 1");

Updating Multiple Username In One User Field
how to update one field with 5 name of users and looping it
till the end of records.if i do this

UPDATE CALL_BARR_LIST_READY
SET [USER]=''
WHERE [USER] ='KUREIL'

it will filled all the records with KUREIL as a USER.
but now i have 5 users and > 1000 records to update
where each user get the same total no of records.

How To Insert Multiple Rows With 1 Insert Query
I am having a form on the front end which has for example 3 rows each with 3 columns. The user enters data in all the 3 rows. When he hits the add button these should get in the database. What insert query would I write to add all of them together to the database? Do I need to use some procedure?

Updating Rows In Table B Based On Related Field In Table A
Ver 4.1.8-standard for apple-darwin7.6.0 on powerpc (Official MySQL-standard binary)

I am trying to do some data migration based. I have several tables that contain our legacy pkey field and I want to update the tables with new ID's.
I need to do this several times and have tried it several ways to no avail.

Table A
---------
companyID int(10) pKey
legacyID int(10) old legacy pkey

Table B
---------
bAID int(10) pkey
companyID int(10)
legacyID int(10)

Table A has values for both companyID (unique key) and legacyID.
Table B has values for bAID (unique key) and legacyID but companyID is empty.

I need to update tableB.companyID with tableA.companyID based on tableb.cSerialID to tablea.cSerialID relationship.

I need a query that will update ALL rows.

Updating Table Based Upon Matching Field In Second Table
I have a database of books that was originally created as a flat file.
Each record has a number of fields, including the authors name. I'm
trying to convert the database to something a little more efficient.
I've created a new table (called Authors) of unique authors names and
assigned each one a unique ID. I've added a new field in the original
table (called Books) for the author's ID. Now, I need to update the
original table with the author ID from the Author's table.

Something like this:

UPDATE Books SET AuthorID = Authors.AuthorID WHERE AuthorName =
Authors.AuthorName

This obviously doesn't work. Any assistance on how to forumulate this
query (or, if I'm headed down the wrong path, the correct way to do this
operation) greatly appreciated.

Updating One Table With Another
My table contains a product number field 'packCode' but some clients may have their own internal product code. I have created a table ('configurators') which contains our product code along with two columns each for clients: their product code and price, i.e.:

packCode, insight_code, insight_price

The client sends me data containing our pack code matched against their product code and price. I wish to merge their data with our price list in the configurators table. The MySQL I have used is:

update configurators
set insight_code=iCode, insight_price=iPrice
where configurators.packCode=config_insight.iPackCode;

(The columns from the client data are preceded with 'i', i.e. 'iCode', 'iPrice' and 'iPackCode')

However, when I run the query, I get the unusual error

"ERROR 1109 (42S02): Unknown table 'config_insight' in where clause"

suggesting that the table 'config_insight' does not exist, which it clearly does. Is this the correct way to merge data from one table into another? Is my SQL query valid or am I missing something?

Updating Table
I'm sure this is possible, probably with a sub-query.I want to update a record with a value from another record in the same table.

E.G.
CODEName     Val_1     Val_2    Check_col
Test1    0         0        s
Test1    10        20       M
Test2    0         0        s
Test2    20        25       M

Updating Table
I have a database table and 1 column has positive and negative values in it.

I want to update the table so that all entries in this column are positive... so all negative values like -3, -2, and -1 become 3,2 and 1 respectively in the table.

Updating Table
I have a database of books that was originally created as a flat file.
Each record has a number of fields, including the authors name. I'm
trying to convert the database to something a little more efficient.
I've created a new table (called Authors) of unique authors names and
assigned each one a unique ID. I've added a new field in the original
table (called Books) for the author's ID. Now, I need to update the
original table with the author ID from the Author's table.

Something like this:

UPDATE Books SET AuthorID = Authors.AuthorID WHERE AuthorName =
Authors.AuthorName .

Updating Table Value
update jobs set paid=true where jobid in (SELECT jobid from jobs where CreatedBYusername='roop')

after executing this query i got an ERROR:

You can't specify target table 'jobs' for update in FROM clause.....
same thing i executed in mssql....how can i do this in mysql

Updating Table
I have two tables:

table1:
id code
1
2
3 aa
4

table2:
id code2
1
2
3 xx
4 zz

I am looking for a way to update table1 with some sort of sql statement. I looked into update and joinn but I couldn't find any relevant information. The reason I don't have any success is prbably because I don't have the correct keyword.

Updating Table From File
I have a table and I need to update records in one column. There are 450 records in the table. I know I can insert records to table from file, but is there a way to update records from file?

Updating Table Privileges
Running MySQL 4.1.14 through Yahoo. When I access Privileges, I receive the following notice:

""Warning: Your privilege table structure seem to be older than this MySQL version!
Please run the script mysql_fix_privilege_tables that should be included in your MySQL server distribution to solve this problem!""

The Scripts folder does not include this file, and I do not know how to execute a fix for the above issue. Is there a way around this (i.e., uploading the mysql_fix_privilege_tables.sql script to run it, and if so, where can I obtain it?)

Updating Table With Datetime
I have a datetime field in a table and when I ran an update like so:

UPDATE myTable SET number=2 WHERE ID=50

I had the old datetime information in the table and that got
overwritten when I did the update. Now I am sure there is no way of
getting that back (yup, believe it or not I didn't do a backup) but
just a general question, should i have done the update like so:

UPDATE myTable SET number=2, mydatetimefield=mydatetimefield WHERE
ID=50

to keep the same information in the datetime field??

Updating A Mapping Table
I have a Publications table and a Themes table. There is also a mapping table for these tables as well.

When I input new records into Publications, my mapping does not get updated. When I delete, then the mapping table will get updated. (This is MySQL 4.x, so no trigger statements.)

My fear is that as I use the mapping table to display some information on a Web page, I will need to update that table "by hand" after I've entered a new record for Publications. Is there some method that I don't know of that will update my mapping table whenever I put in new records into Publications (esp. via a Web form)?

This is the setup for the mapping table: it has foreign keys on the primary key (ID) column of both Publications and Themes. That's it, nothing else in there.

Table Data Updating
I've heard that oracle will update data in a table when a specific event occurs and was curious if mySQL will do the same?
For my site I'm designing a comment section that will be attached to my news section. My database organization scheme will consist of two tables. One table that will hold all the news entries and another that holds all the comments. Thus, when browsing the news section visitors initially only access the news table, and once they click on the comments tab then they will access the comments table. Figured this was the best way to organize the data. However, I want the news table to contain the number of comments that exist for that news-section so that the count can be displayed.
My question is how can I make the news table update its data column containing the count for comments when the comments table recieves an update? Is this possible at all in mySQL? If there is a resource someone could point me in let me know, or if anyone has suggestions of a type of hack that would suffice as well

Updating Table With Reference To Another Table
I am trying to update two columns of a table (date and location) so that they are equal to the date and location of another table on a lastname join. Here's is the code I have right now:

update tblA
set tblA.date = tblB.date, tblA.location = tblB.location
where tblA.lastname = tblB.lastname;

I am getting a syntax error with the above code. Does anyone know how to do this?

Updating A Table Based On The Value In Another Table In Ver 3.23.54-Max
I am trying to update fields in table SOLAR_SYSTEM based on the values in RESEARCH_LEVEL table

This is a SQL that I am trying to use

UPDATE SOLAR_SYSTEM JOIN RESEARCH_LEVEL ON SOLAR_SYSTEM.USER_ID=RESEARCH_LEVEL.USER_ID SET
SOLAR_SYSTEM.CASH_METAL=SOLAR_SYSTEM.CASH_METAL+1000,
SOLAR_SYSTEM.CASH_CRISTAL=SOLAR_SYSTEM.CASH_CRISTAL+1000,
SOLAR_SYSTEM.CASH_ENERGY=SOLAR_SYSTEM.CASH_ENERGY+1000
WHERE RESEARCH_LEVEL.TYPE='M' AND RESEARCH_LEVEL.LEVEL=1;

I got error

"ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'JOIN RESEARCH_LEVEL ON SO
LAR_SYSTEM.USER_ID=RESEARCH_LEVEL.USER_ID SET
SOLAR_SY' at line 1"

I don't know what is wrong. Can I do such an update in Ver 3.23.54-Max in the first place ? IF yes, then what's wrong with my statement?

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.

Table Locking When Updating From DataSet?
I have a bunch of code that updates tables from a VB.Net DataSets.

The original code updated Access2000 tables, I migrated the MDBs to MySql and have converted the data adaptors and command builders to MySqlClient statements.

Does anyone have any code examples to to the table locking using DataSets???

PHP + MySQL Updating All Record In Table
I need a loop that updates 2 fields of all the records in my table.
I will multiply these fields by a value passed as POST to php.
I'm having trouble with mysql_fetch_assoc and mYsql_fetch_array... How do I do this... all i have done so far is selecting the fields from the table and outputting to the browser.
How do I modify the values and update them in the right place?

Multiple Insert
How can I measure the size of a mutiple insert statement in bytes?

Ex: insert into table1 (field1,field2) values ('a',111),('b',222),('c',333);

Is there a tool or a sql-command that could give me the size in bytes of the queries I'm sending to the server?

Multiple INSERT
Can i make multiple inserts into a table using one statement.
the statement:

INSERT INTO table1 (UserName) VALUES (SELECT DISTINCT UserName FROM
table2)

Basically, i want to take out all the UserNames from table2 and insert
them into table1.

Multiple Insert
the statement i am using is below
INSERT INTO City VALUES (8,'Herat','AFG','Herat',186800);
INSERT INTO City VALUES (9,'Kabul','AFG','Kabol',196800);

And the message it gives is

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ';
INSERT INTO City VALUES (9,'Kabul','AFG','Kabol',196800)' at line 1.

Calculate A Moving Average And Updating A Table With It
I'm learning SQL and now I'm trying to update a table (koersen) with stockdata (date, ticker, open, close, volume, MA10vol).
The column MA10vol is empty and should contain the avg volume from the last ten records with the same ticker.
What I tried sofar:

SELECT @hdat:= (SELECT DISTINCT DATE_FORMAT(datum, '%Y-%m-%d') FROM koersen ORDER BY datum DESC LIMIT 0,1);
SELECT @ldat:= (SELECT DISTINCT DATE_FORMAT(datum, '%Y-%m-%d') FROM koersen ORDER BY datum DESC LIMIT 0,10);
SELECT tickerVL, AVG(totvolume) AS MA10
FROM(
    SELECT  SUM(k.volume) AS totvolume
        FROM koersen k WHERE k.datum BETWEEN @hdat AND @ldat
        GROUP BY k.tickerVL
    ) AS tijdelijk

The update part comes later. I'm now trying to make a subquery to get me the total volume of the last ten days. But I get a message that the subquery returns more then 1 row (more tickers I think).

But I want a query that updates every MA10vol for every ticker. I know I'm doiing something wrong but what?

How To Insert Into Multiple Tables
I have a situation where I need to insert into 2 tables that are related through ID and V3DETAILKEY.

The tables are:
V3DETAILSERVICE (ID VARCHAR(9), V3DETAILKEY VARCHAR(20), SERVICE NUMBER(7,4))

V3DETAILSALARY (ID VARCHAR(9), V3DETAILKEY VARCHAR(20), SALARY NUMBER(9,2))

So, the ID is 000001, SERVICE is 12.00, SALARY is 2200.00, V3DETAILKEY is automatically generated. Now if I was just going to insert into each table separately this is how I would do it:

INSERT INTO V3DETAILSERVICE
VALUES ('000001', V3DETAILKEY_SEQ.NEXTVAL, 12.00)

INSERT INTO V3DETAILSALARY
VALUES ('000001', V3DETAILKEY_SEQ.NEXTVAL, 2200.00)

However I need to update both tables with the same V3DETAILKEY and I am not sure how to do this.

Insert Multiple Rows
I want to insert multiples rows and use sintax
"INSERT INTO tbl_name (a,b,c) VALUES(1,2,3),(4,5,6),(7,8,9);".

But, I get the following error: "Column count doesn't match value count at row 1".
The number of fields is the same, only that insert multiple rows.

How To Insert The Same Value In Multiple Rows?
i just added a new column to one of my tables. it is an int column, and is currently
assigned 'NULL' in all instances. How can i insert, for instance, the value 0 into all rows?

String: Insert Multiple
I have strings with no "
" in a text field. I need to output each string with with a "
" after every 60 characters. In other words I need to change the line length from unlimited to 60. I do not want to change the stored version of the data, just the output.

What is the best way of doing this SELECT?

Multiple INSERT Queries
I have a for loop that generates and submits a query on every itteration. The number of itterations can be can be anywhere between just a couple dozen and a few thousand.
Is there a more efficient use of MySQL than this...
PHP Code:

for () {
INSERT INTO...
}
There must be some way of building the query in the for loop and sending the entire thing out as just one query submission.

Insert Multiple Rows At Once
I was faking it a couple of years ago when I made my first database for my photography website. Now I'm updating it and I'm inserting One item at a time manually thru PHP. It's slow and tedious and I've got 467 entries to do.... I'm sure there's an easy way of doing it all at once. I'm just too much of a retard and I'm too tired to try to learn some MySQL tonight. Could someone please help me?
Here's the query that I'm ending up with. (I started at Number 100, I'm increasing the Number by 100 each time and I need to go to Number 46700.)

SQL query:
INSERT INTO `Headshots` ( `Number` , `Category` , `Name` )
VALUES (
'2800', 'Head', ''
);

Multiple Insert Statement
Just wanted to know whether its possible to insert multiple feilds in different tables inj one nested query
There are nested queries for SELECT statement like join etc
Is it possible in case of INSERT statements as well

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 Single Row Vs Multiple Rows
My question is: is it possible to add data separated by commas into an existing row that already contains some data?

Insert Data Into Multiple Tables
Can I insert data into multiple tables at once? Basically just need to insert a number into the 'membersID' column into 10 tables, but is taking ages, so wondering if I can write a query which targets all the tables or is this impossible in SQL?

LAST_INSERT_ID With Multiple INSERT Statement
i have the following question:

When inserting many entries into a table with 1 auto_increment key-attibute
(say attribute user_id) and one data attribute (say attribute name)

CREATE users(user_id int key auto_increment, name text)

like

INSERT INTO users(name) VALUES ('pete'),('josh'),('carl')

When the inserting is done in a concurrent way (say 5 scripts do inserting operations like the one above) how do I get the autoincremented ids for all the inserted rows ? I know that LAST_INSERT_ID() yields the autoinc id of the first inserted row (of the multi-insert statement) say 1002 for 'pete' in this case and is also concurrent-safe. But is the insert statement atomic that i can assume that the subsequent generated ids for 'josh' and 'carl' are consecutive i.e. 'josh' gets 1003 and 'carl' gets 1004 when many scripts insert into this table ?

I dont want to use a subsequent SELECT statement to fetch the auto_incremented ids.

Insert Multiple Identical Rows
Is it possible to insert multiple identical rows using a single query without using a loop to build this query. for example:

sqlselected = 0
Set oConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
oConn.Open "DSN="& websitedsn
oConn.CursorLocation = 3
strSQL = "INSERT INTO testtable (testvar) VALUES ('testinsert') "
oConn.Execute strSQL, sqlselected

I would like to create say 500 of the above rows but not use a loop to build the insert query, and not use a loop to do oRs.addnew or anything like that.. Just a simple 1 line query to add a specific amount of rows. i would eventually like to use a script variable to control how many rows to add.

Insert Data Into Multiple Tables
Is it possible to insert data into multiple tables with one insert statement?

Insert Into Single / Select From Multiple Tables
I have two tables from two databases (joomla2.jos_content and maxdev.jos_content) that I need to pull data from in order to populate a single table (joomla2.jos_magazine)

Here is what I want to do (I know this query doesn't work but you get the idea what I am trying to do)

insert joomla2.jos_magazine_articles
(joomla2.jos_magazine_articles.name,
joomla2.jos_magazine_articles.article_id,
joomla2.jos_magazine_articles.category_id,
joomla2.jos_magazine_articles.catid)

select
joomla2.jos_content.title,
joomla2.jos_content.id,
joomla2.jos_content.catid,
maxdev.jos_content.catid

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?