Re: Select into

HI Gurjeet,

You're right.

But what information do you need to know?

The copy is inside the same table, so I don't understand why it (the
required query ) would require any joins.

Ie. I want to copy the contents of a row (but for the id column - of
course) into a record in the same table.

I am happy enough to give you a table schema, if that's required...
but I just don't see why it would be needed - but of course am happy
to be told something new!

Thanks again.

Gavin Baumanis

On 20/03/2008, at 9:58 PM, Gurjeet Singh wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:19 PM, A. Kretschmer <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com
> > wrote:
> am Thu, dem 20.03.2008, um 20:57:53 +1100 mailte Gavin 'Beau'
> Baumanis folgendes:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I have asked our DBA at work and h is not too sure either... so I
> > thought it best to on the list.
> >
> > Basically, what I am after is a way to copy the contents of one
> record
> > into another.
> > Something like select into; but where the destination record already
> > exists, as opposed to creating a new record.
>
> insert into <table> select from <table> where ...
>
>
> He specifically asked for
>
> <snip>
>
> where the destination record already
> exists, as opposed to creating a new record.
>
> </snip>
>
>
> I think an UPDATE with joins would be helpful. Though, it may
> become lengthy if the tables have too many columns.
>
> Can you post your exact requirement?
>
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