Hi Fraser,
I a sorry I dont understand what you want to do. Could you show how you want it to be and the queries which you used so far ? Best regards Nils Valentin Tokyo/Japan 2003年 8月 13日 水曜日 08:30、Fraser Hanson さんは書きました: > I have table A with column id, and table B with columns id and > content. > > I am trying to build a query that inserts all ids from table A into > table B, and also sets the "value" field for all these new entries to > a given value. > > > For example: > #Before the query, the tables are like this: > mysql> select * from a; > +------+ > > | id | > > +------+ > > | hal | > | ron | > | kip | > | dag | > | bob | > | max | > > +------+ > > mysql> select * from b; > +------+-------+ > > | id | value | > > +------+-------+ > > | bob | 4 | > | bob | 5 | > | max | 5 | > > +------+-------+ > > # After the query, b is like this: > > mysql> select * from b; > +------+-------+ > > | id | value | > > +------+-------+ > > | bob | 4 | > | bob | 5 | > | dag | 4 | > | hal | 4 | > | kip | 4 | > | max | 4 | > | max | 5 | > | ron | 4 | > > +------+-------+ > > I have been trying variations on the INSERT ... SELECT syntax, but > I suspect this is a dead end. The next best thing I can think > of is building a temporary table that has the values that I want, and > then using INSERT ... SELECT to copy them all into table b. > > Can anyone suggest a way to achieve this? > --Fraser Hanson -- --- Valentin Nils Internet Technology E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.knowd.co.jp Personal URL: http://www.knowd.co.jp/staff/nils -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
