2013/1/14 Robert James <srobertjames@gmail.com>:
> I have a lot of VALUES I want to INSERT. But only a subset of them -
> only those that meet a JOIN criteria involving another table.
>
> I could INSERT them into a temp table, and then do a SELECT INTO. But
> do I need to do that? Is there any way to do a INSERT... VALUES ...
> WHERE...
INSERT INTO ... SELECT is what you are looking for.
Simple example:
CREATE TABLE seltest (id INT);
INSERT INTO seltest (id) SELECT 1;
HTH
Ian Lawrence Barwick