I tried this:
INSERT INTO event_log_tracker_table
SELECT * FROM event_tracker_table WHERE eventid = '560'
However I get this error:
Error Code: 1136. Column count doesn't match value count at row 1
The columns match exactly the same except for one thing...
I added one more column (eventlogid) in event_log_tracker_table to be a primary key. How can I insert a row, from another table and have it add to a primary key in the new table?
Below is a structure of the tables.
event_log_tracker_table (24 columns)
-----------------------
eventlogid - PK
eventid - INT
//
// 22 other columns
//
event_tracker_table (23 columns)
-----------------------
eventid - PK
//
// 22 other columns
//
I have tried to do this:
INSERT INTO event_log_tracker_table
SELECT null, * FROM event_tracker_table WHERE eventid = '560'
As documented under SELECT Syntax:
Use of an unqualified * with other items in the select list may produce a parse error. To avoid this problem, use a qualified tbl_name.* reference
SELECT AVG(score), t1.* FROM t1 ...
Therefore, instead of SELECT NULL, * you could should qualify the wildcard:
INSERT INTO event_log_tracker_table
SELECT NULL, event_tracker_table.*
FROM event_tracker_table
WHERE eventid = '560'
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I have two tables, I want to create a new table with same attribute using the data from two tables.
following is the code im trying
/* Create a table called NAMES */
CREATE TABLE NAMES(Id integer PRIMARY KEY, Name varchar(100));
CREATE TABLE GAMES(Id integer PRIMARY KEY, Name varchar(100));
CREATE TABLE JJ(Id integer PRIMARY KEY, Name varchar(100));
/* Create few records in this table */
INSERT INTO NAMES VALUES(1,'Tom');
INSERT INTO NAMES VALUES(2,'Lucy');
INSERT INTO NAMES VALUES(3,'Frank');
INSERT INTO NAMES VALUES(4,'Jane');
INSERT INTO NAMES VALUES(5,'Robert');
INSERT INTO GAMES VALUES(7,'Football');
INSERT INTO GAMES VALUES(6,'Rugby');
COMMIT;
/* Display all the records from the table */
SELECT * FROM NAMES;
SELECT * FROM GAMES;
INSERT INTO JJ (Id, Name) VALUES((SELECT * FROM NAMES), (SELECT * FROM GAMES));
SELECT * FROM JJ; 'Error: near line 21: sub-select returns 2 columns - expected 1'
this will work for oracle :
INSERT INTO JJ (Id, Name)((SELECT * FROM NAMES) union all(SELECT * FROM GAMES));
for mysql :
insert into JJ select * from Names union all select * from Games;
but as Zaynul said when two primary key matches it will throw an error!!!!
the way you trying to merge two table is not better aproach b/c two different table primary key may same which will thrown error in times of 3rd table insertion(duplicate key). i would prefer change your table structure make all three table primary key auto increment and push just name not id
INSERT INTO JJ ( Name)
select name from (
SELECT name FROM NAMES
union all
SELECT name FROM GAMES
) t
I would suggest declaring JJ as:
CREATE TABLE JJ (
Id integer auto_increment PRIMARY KEY,
Name varchar(100)
);
insert into jj (name)
select name from names union all
select game from games;
I've got the following table:
productId price
1 price_value1
2 price_value2
3 price_value3
I would like to insert a new product into the table and assign it a new productId. In this case its value equals to 4.
So I want my new table to look like so:
productId price
1 price_value1
2 price_value2
3 price_value3
4 price_value4
So as far as I understand, in order to do that I have to somehow retrieve the max value of productId and insert it using INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (productId + 1, price_value4).
But how do I find out the maximum value of productId?
I tried INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (SELECT MAX(productId) + 1 FROM mytable, price_value4) but it didn't work.
This should Work:
Select the max(productID) and price_value4 as a columns from mytable and insert the result.
INSERT INTO mytable (SELECT MAX(productId) + 1, 'price_value4' FROM mytable);
However, if you are not going to jump some number you can just add an auto increment id key to product_id and then you will have only to insert the price, the product ID will be incremented automatically..
This will do so :
ALTER TABLE mytable
MODIFY COLUMN `productId` INT(10) UNSIGNED PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT;
you can change INT(10) with the INT(5) for example depanding on the size you want to give to your productId column
EDIT :
In return to the OP question in comments why his solution wouldn't work
Some suggetions says you have to make the SELECT statment in insert always between parenthesis
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES ( (SELECT MAX(ID)+1 FROM mytable) , price_value4)
.. In my Case it Return
(1093): You can't specify target table
'mytable' for update in FROM clause
AND HERE IS WHY (Quoting From the documentation)
When selecting from and inserting into the same table, MySQL creates
an internal temporary table to hold the rows from the SELECT and then
inserts those rows into the target table. However, you cannot use
INSERT INTO t ... SELECT ... FROM t when t is a TEMPORARY table,
because TEMPORARY tables cannot be referred to twice in the same
statement
BUT there is away to overcome by using a query instead of the table itself in the FROM, which has the effect of copying the requested table values instead of referencing the one that you are updating..
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (
(SELECT MAX(ID)+1 FROM (SELECT * FROM mytable ) as mytmp ),
'price_value4');
OR (Quoting From the documentation)
To avoid ambiguous column reference problems when the SELECT and the
INSERT refer to the same table, provide a unique alias for each table
used in the SELECT part, and qualify column names in that part with
the appropriate alias.
INSERT INTO mytable Values ( (SELECT MAX(ID)+1 FROM mytable as mytmp) , 'price_value4')
This is a duplicate question. In order to take advantage of the auto-incrementing capability of the column, do not supply a value for that column when inserting rows.
A simple syntax to create table
CREATE TABLE Product (
productId MEDIUMINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
price INT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (productid)
);
While inserting supplied default or leave column as blank or supplied value as NULL. Take a look at below code snippet.
INSERT INTO Product (price) VALUES
('10'),('20'),('4'),
('30');
refer this link
I have my table schema in H2 db as follows:
create table if not exists Test ( id bigint not null,name varchar(255), primary key (id) );
alter table Test add constraint if not exists Test_NAME UNIQUE (name);
I want to insert a value for the name attribute as 'Default' if it does not exist in the table by selecting the latest id value from the table and increment it by one.
Example:
Do not insert if an entry for name = Default already exists.
ID | Name
1 | Default
Insert if an entry for name = Default does not exists.
ID | Name
1 | ABC
2 | XYZ
For the id column, find the max id and increment it by one. In this case, insert id=3 and name=Default.
My query is as follows:
INSERT INTO Test (id , name)
SELECT max(id) + 1, 'Default' from Test
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Test where name='Default');
However, it gives me an error saying:
NULL not allowed for column "ID"; SQL statement
as it applies the where condition on the inner select statement.
I also tried:
MERGE INTO Test KEY(name) VALUES (SELECT MAX(id) + 1 from Test, 'Default');
It gives an error because, merge tries to update with the new values.
If it finds 'Default', it will update the row with new id causing primary key violation.
Is there a better way to do this? How can I make the query work?
You are massively overcomplicating this. Define the id field as auto increment and place a unique index on the name field. The unique index prevents duplicate names to be inserted, while the auto increment increases the value of the id field by 1 (by default) if the insert is successful.
I updated id to auto increment and the following query work flawlessly
INSERT INTO Test (name) select * from (select 'Default') as tmp WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT name from Test where name='Default');
when you run your query first time, no record found in table so, it give error 'null' there, so if you add IFNULL() function there as below
INSERT INTO Test (id , name)
SELECT **IFNULL**(max(id),0) + 1, 'Default'
FROM Test
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Test where name='Default');
I have a table that looks like this:
Number | Name
--------+--------
123 | Robert
This is what I want to do:
If the Number is already in the database, don't insert a new record.
If the Number is not in the databse, but the name is, create a new name and insert it. So for example, if I have a record that contains 123 for Number and Bob for Name, I don't want to insert it, but if I get a record that contains 456 for Number and Robert for name, I would insert 456 and Robert1. I was going to check for duplicates individually like:
SELECT * FROM Person where Number = 123;
//If number is not found
SELECT * FROM Person where Name = 'Robert';
//If name is found, add a number to it.
Is there a way I can combine the two statements?
There are actually two problems in your question. The first problem is to make Number column unique and the second one is to increment the column Name by appending a number if it already exists.
FIRST PART
Since the number is UNIQUE, enforce a UNIQUE constraint on the column. It could be a PRIMARY KEY or a UNIQUE KEY.
If the column has no KEY and you want to make it PRIMARY, here is the ALTER statement:
ALTER TABLE TableName ADD CONSTRAINT tb_pk PRIMARY KEY (Number)
SQLFiddle Demo
but if you only want it to be UNIQUE and not a primary key,
ALTER TABLE TableName ADD CONSTRAINT tb_uq UNIQUE (Number)
SQLFiddle Demo
SECOND PART
You can actually do it without using join.
INSERT INTO TableName(Number, Name)
SELECT 124 AS Number,
CONCAT('Robert', COALESCE(MAX(CAST(REPLACE(Name, 'Robert', '0') AS UNSIGNED)) + 1,'')) AS Name
FROM TableName
WHERE Name LIKE 'Robert%'
SQLFiddle Demo
SQLFiddle Demo (added more example)
SQLFiddle Demo (throws exception due to uniqueness)
Some details:
when the value supplied on column Number already exists, it will throw an error since the column is unique. I have read a comment from a deleted posts saying: "..Number is not unique, but if it does exist, I don't want to enter a record." -- it does not make any sense if you don't want to add uniqueness on the column. How will you know if the number already exists or not? Doing a little check for the existence of Number feels like a little overhead for me. So my best recommendation is to enforce uniqueness.
SELECT * FROM Person WHERE Number = 123 OR Name = 'Robert'
I haven't worked with SQL for some time, so this may be wrong ;)
Edit:
$number = 123;
$name = 'Robert';
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Person WHERE Number = $number OR Name = '$name' ");
if (mysql_num_rows($query) == 0 ) {
//-> Add your record, it's unused
} else if (mysql_result($query, 0, 'number') == $number && mysql_result($query, 0, 'name' == $name)) {
//combination of number and name already exists -> modify name and add record
} else {
echo "Number is used by another name";
}
Use this query, for insert the row [123, 'Robert']. if you want insert other values, change 123 & Robert values in below query:
insert into Person (Number,Name)
select 123, IF(mn.MaxNumber is NULL,'Robert',concat('Robert',mn.MaxNumber+1))
from (SELECT 'foo') foo
left JOIN (select max(CONVERT(SUBSTR(Name,LENGTH('Robert')+1),UNSIGNED)) `MaxNumber`
from person where name rlike '^Robert[0-9]*$') mn on 1=1
where Not Exists (select * from Person where Number=123)
NOTE: if Robert exists in the table, above query inserts Robert1. if Robert1 exists, it inserts Robert2, and so on .
make both number and name unique.
ALTER TABLE `person` ADD UNIQUE (`number` ,`name`);
You can now do a insert with ON DUPLICATE
INSERT INTO `person` (`number`, `name`, `id`) VALUES ('322', 'robert', 'NULL') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `id`='NULL';
For appending a number after name i would suggest using autoincrement column instead.
insert into Person (Number,Name)
select 123, IF(mn.MaxNumber is NULL,'Robert',concat('Robert',mn.MaxNumber+1))
from (SELECT 'foo') foo
left JOIN (select max(CONVERT(SUBSTR(Name,LENGTH('Robert')+1),UNSIGNED)) `MaxNumber`
from person where name rlike '^Robert[0-9]*$') mn on true
where Not Exists (select * from Person where Number=123)
I'm trying to insert an ingredient to an ingredients table if it doesn't exist.
I'm using the following syntax:
INSERT INTO ingredient(Name)
(
SELECT 'ingName' FROM dummytable WHERE
(SELECT count(*) FROM ingredient WHERE Name = 'ingName')=0)
This does not seem to work (0 rows affected), even though the SELECT query seem to return the desired result (an entry which contains "ingName").
The "ingredient" table has 2 columns: Name, id (id is auto incremented)
Thanks,
Li
Its better to add unique index on the name column:
ALTER TABLE `ingredient` ADD UNIQUE(`Name`)
After doing that you can use INSERT IGNORE:
INSERT IGNORE INTO `ingredient` ... /* anything */
That's because your inner query SELECT count(*) FROM ingredient WHERE Name = 'ingName' is returning a value > 0 and hence the upper query SELECT 'ingName' FROM dummytable WHERE is not selecting any rows and so no insert is happening.
I tried the same with a test table having 2 column name|value and it did worked fine
INSERT INTO test1(name) (
SELECT 'name' FROM test2 WHERE
(
SELECT count(*) FROM test2 WHERE name = 'bilboa'
)
=0
)
Inserted 2 rows with value name cause that's what I am selecting in select query and my test table 2 rows.