On Thursday 12 December 2002 07:23, Max Clark wrote:
> I would like to run an insert query across two tables at the same time. The
> first table has a primary key that is auto_increment, the second table
> needs to insert the primary key from the first table as a reference?
>
> How do I auto-populate the tableId field with the correct entry from the
> first table insert?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Max
>
> insert into table1 (name, desc) values ("foo", "foouser");
>
> id name desc
>
> 55 foo foouser
>
> insert into table2 (table1Id, text) values ("?", "some text");
>
> id table1Id text
>
> 69 55 some text
Use LAST_INSERT_ID() function:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Miscellaneous_functions.html
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/example-Foreign_keys.html
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