Re: Simple Query

[Peter Brawley]

>I tried this but it is not working. I'm not very 
>familiar with subqueries as you can see. 

>insert into table_2 ( id, value ) values ( (select id from table_1), '1' );

insert into table_2 (id,value)
select id,1 from table_1;

PB


Ben Wiechman wrote:
> I need help writing what is probably a rather simple query.
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> I have two tables. The first contains several columns, but most importantly
> an id column.
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> The second is has two columns, an id that corresponds with the id in the
> first table, and a value.
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> For every row in the first table I'd like to insert a row into the second
> with a set value.
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> I tried this but it is not working. I'm not very familiar with subqueries as
> you can see.
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> insert into table_2 ( id, value ) values ( (select id from table_1), '1' );
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> Ben Wiechman
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