I think what you are looking for is the Insert...Select statement
http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/N/INSERT_SELECT.html
Sheridan Saint-Michel
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Spletzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 4:38 PM
Subject: Copying data from one table to another.
> Hello, I'm a newbie, so pardon my lack of wherewithal with MySQL, and
thanks
> for the help in advance.
>
> I have two table and I want to copy info from one table to another. I can
> pull the correct information out with a select statement that looks
> something like this
>
> Select x1 from tbl1, tbl2 where y1 = y2
>
> (numbers correspond to different tables)
>
> This returns a table of the info I want to use. Logically, what I would
> like to do is:
>
> Update tbl1 set x1 = x2 where y1 = y2;
>
> But this won't work because x1 and x2 are from different tables, as are y1
> and y2. However, I've tried including tbl2 in the update parts, and that
> doesn't work either. I'm at a loss.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> -eric spletzer
>
>
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