RE: insert into... select... duplicate key

2005-09-25 Thread Schimmel LCpl Robert B \(GCE 2nd Intel Bn Web Master\)
Subject: Re: insert into... select... duplicate key Relevant bits of the conversation so far, with my thoughts at the end: Schimmel LCpl Robert B (GCE 2nd Intel Bn Web Master) wrote: > Here is the problem that I am having. I am trying to make a copy of a > full record in a table that has a p

Re: insert into... select... duplicate key

2005-09-25 Thread Michael Stassen
Relevant bits of the conversation so far, with my thoughts at the end: Schimmel LCpl Robert B (GCE 2nd Intel Bn Web Master) wrote: Here is the problem that I am having. I am trying to make a copy of a full record in a table that has a primary key with auto-increment. The real problem is that I

Re: insert into... select... duplicate key

2005-09-25 Thread Danny Stolle
I am not familiour with Cold Fusion but: cant you use 'show columns from table' ?? and use the result object? This normally works in e.g. C or PHP danny Schimmel LCpl Robert B (GCE 2nd Intel Bn Web Master) wrote: I am using Cold Fusion and as I stated in my original message, if I were using

RE: insert into... select... duplicate key

2005-09-25 Thread Schimmel LCpl Robert B \(GCE 2nd Intel Bn Web Master\)
I am using Cold Fusion and as I stated in my original message, if I were using MySQL 5, then I could use information_schema to retrieve the column names in the table and do it with variables in Cold Fusion. I do that on all my pages on the MySQL 5 servers with which I work. However, the server I am

Re: insert into... select... duplicate key

2005-09-25 Thread Danny Stolle
Well I haven't realy found a select method in which you can isolate a field. Like a complementary method, in which you select like one field, but shows the fields except the field which you have used in your select-statement. So you excually want to dynamically insert the records, not knowing

RE: insert into... select... duplicate key

2005-09-25 Thread Schimmel LCpl Robert B \(GCE 2nd Intel Bn Web Master\)
That is the effect that I am looking for, but exactly the method that I am trying to avoid. If I type the column names into my INSERT... SELECT and someone later adds a column to the table, I would have to go back into my program and update the statement. I am looking for a way to do it dynamically

Re: insert into... select... duplicate key

2005-09-25 Thread Danny Stolle
Hi, I am hoping you meen this: You have to use the fields in your into -statement and select statement, not including the field having the auto-numbering so if e.g. field1 has autonumbering -> insert into table1 (field2, field3) select (field2, field3) from table1; autonumbering will automat