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Select MIN() & MAX()

From
"Krasnow, Greg"
Date:
oops... my goof... I read it too quickly...

ok... one more stupid question... can you not do an "insert into t1 (select
'a','b',min(f)-1 from t2)"?

- Greg

Greg Krasnow
HNC Software Inc.
Financial Solutions Group
Senior Software Engineer
Email: gak@hnc.com
Direct Phone: 619.799.8341
Fax: 619.799.8036

Re: [GENERAL] Select MIN() & MAX()

From
Dimitri
Date:
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, you wrote:
>oops... my goof... I read it too quickly...
>
>ok... one more stupid question... can you not do an "insert into t1 (select
>'a','b',min(f)-1 from t2)"?

Of course:

insert into t1
  select 'a', 'b', min(f) - 1
   from t2;

it's standard SQL

>
>- Greg
>
>Greg Krasnow
>HNC Software Inc.
>Financial Solutions Group
>Senior Software Engineer
>Email: gak@hnc.com
>Direct Phone: 619.799.8341
>Fax: 619.799.8036
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Re: [GENERAL] Select MIN() & MAX()

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
> oops... my goof... I read it too quickly...
>
> ok... one more stupid question... can you not do an "insert into t1 (select
> 'a','b',min(f)-1 from t2)"?

Do:

insert into t1
select 'a','b',min(f)-1 from t2

I think that should work.

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