There were numerous times when I needed to insert records in the table from a result of another SELECT query, or copy data from one table to another. And every time I forgot the syntax of insert…select query. So I thought I should write it somewhere and blog is the best place for this 🙂
A very basic example of insert…select query is:
INSERT INTO tbl_temp2 (fld_id) SELECT tbl_temp1.fld_order_id FROM tbl_temp1 WHERE tbl_temp1.fld_order_id > 100;
Use this as a reference and build your own query. You can use joins as well. If you use MySQL and want further details see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/insert-select.html.
