I was successful to get result from select (this sub-select appear in MySQL manual).
At 21:20 26/2/2002 -0600, Paul DuBois wrote: >At 9:18 +0700 2/27/02, Sommai Fongnamthip wrote: >>Hi, >> MySQL has insert into function and sub select (mysql style) but >> I could not conclude these function togethter. >> >> If I want to select not existing row in 2 table, I used: >> >> SELECT table1.* FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table2 ON >> table1.id=table2.id where table2.id is null >> >>then I'd like to insert the result row back into table2 by this SQL: >> >> insert into table2 SELECT table1.* FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table2 >> ON table1.id=table2.id where table2.id is null >> >> it got this error: >> ERROR 1066: Not unique table/alias: 'table2' >> >> How could I fixed this problem?? > >You can't. You're trying to insert records into a table from which >you're selecting them, which is forbidden. > >At least, I think that's what's happening - though technically, you're >not actually selecting columns from table2 to insert into table2. If >you run the query without the insert part at the beginning, do you get >the same error? > >>Sommai > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > >To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To unsubscribe, e-mail ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php ---------------------------------------------------------- Please be informed that all e-mail which are addressing to thaithanakit.co.th will need to be changed to BTsecurities.com by March 1, 2002 Thank you. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
