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 ...)