Thread: insert related data into two tables

Hello,

I have two tables like these:

TABLE_1:  people registry
fields: ID_T1, SURNAME, NAME
ID_T1 is primary key

TABLE_2: work groups
fields: ID_T2, TASK
ID_T2 is foreign key related to ID_T1

the first table is the list of employees, the second the task.

Sometime I need to insert a new employee and at the same time the task
for him:
I want to INSERT TO table 1 JOHN DOE (the ID is assigned automatically
since it's a primary key) and INSERT TO table 2 the ID and the task
name for JOHN DOE. Is it possible to create a single query? What is the
best way to do this?

Thanks,

Filippo

You need to manage the transaction: begin a
transaction, execute your first insert, retrieve the
ID with curr_val(), execute the sencond insert and
commit the transaction.

--- filippo2991@virgilio.it wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have two tables like these:
> 
> TABLE_1:  people registry
> fields: ID_T1, SURNAME, NAME
> ID_T1 is primary key
> 
> TABLE_2: work groups
> fields: ID_T2, TASK
> ID_T2 is foreign key related to ID_T1
> 
> the first table is the list of employees, the second
> the task.
> 
> Sometime I need to insert a new employee and at the
> same time the task
> for him:
> I want to INSERT TO table 1 JOHN DOE (the ID is
> assigned automatically
> since it's a primary key) and INSERT TO table 2 the
> ID and the task
> name for JOHN DOE. Is it possible to create a single
> query? What is the
> best way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Filippo
> 
> 
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filippo2991@virgilio.it wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have two tables like these:
>
>TABLE_1:  people registry
>fields: ID_T1, SURNAME, NAME
>ID_T1 is primary key
>
>TABLE_2: work groups
>fields: ID_T2, TASK
>ID_T2 is foreign key related to ID_T1
>
>the first table is the list of employees, the second the task.
>
>Sometime I need to insert a new employee and at the same time the task
>for him:
>I want to INSERT TO table 1 JOHN DOE (the ID is assigned automatically
>since it's a primary key) and INSERT TO table 2 the ID and the task
>name for JOHN DOE. Is it possible to create a single query? What is the
>best way to do this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Filippo
>
>
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>
maybe you could create a view for the join of the two tebles,
then make that view writable by creating the
appropriate triggers.
Then a single insert into the view would in fact create everything.