Re: [SQL] copy one to many?

At 6:06 +0300 on 28/8/98, Walt Bigelow wrote:

> I was looking more on the lines of a list of dest values. This list is by
> no means in order, or sequential.
>
> For example: I want to copy this data TO this list of lib #'s
>
> 3422, 4456, 7743... etc (baiscally random)
>
> I'd prefer to have 1 insert statment do the job. Right now I have M$
> Access doing this in a for/next loop, changing the dest lib number for
> each in the list.
>
> I'd prefer to do this on the server end. Whould this be easy to do with
> server side funcs?

Well.... SQL was NOT designed as a procedural language, and when you have
data of a 'random' nature, as you said, you need a procedural languague,
which the current backend doesn't have.

If you want to insert just the new lib numbers into an auxiliary table, you
can easily do the insert as a cartesian product between the rows you want
to duplicates and the rows in the auxiliary table.

Of course, then you'll need a loop for inserting the lib values into the
auxiliary table - or you can do that with a COPY.

Herouth

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