"adrian Greeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is a particular form of SQL query you can use I believe when you
> are adding data to a table and want to include an ID number from another
> lookup table but you only know the name reference and not the ID
>
> eg it might be an "author" table with an author_id and author_name and
> you want to enter a row into a book table which uses author_id but you
> only know the name.
>
> I think the statement involves a WHERE followed by a SELECT but am
> unsure of the precise syntax.
Seems you need INSERT .. SELECT:
INSERT INTO book( .. ) SELECT author_id .. FROM author WHERE
author_name="name";
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