Re: INSERT... WHERE

On 1/13/13, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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;


Thanks.  But how do I do that where I have many literals? Something like:

INSERT INTO seltest (id, a, b) SELECT (1,2,3),(4,5,6),(7,8,9) WHERE b
IN (SELECT ...)