[ale] SQL insert from another database

[James Sumners]

You are close:

INSERT INTO A.users (name) VALUES( (SELECT busers.name FROM B.users busers) );

I believe that should work, provided the user executing the query has
SELECT access to the B database and INSERT access to the A database.

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I've got an employee that is starting in SQL but does not know perl.  He
> wants to copy rows from one database to another.  I would do this in SQL
> or even SQL + Perl but I want to figure out how we could do this in just
> SQL.
>
> Here is a sample table.
>
> users
>  user_id  int,Primary,auto increment
>  name
>
>
> In scenerio one we want to delete all users in A and copy B to A.
>
> delete from A.users;
> insert into A.users select * B.users;
>
> That works very well especially when there is no data in A.users.
>
> Here is the scnerio I want to do in SQL.
>
> A.users:
>  1, Joe
>  2, Susan
>
> B.users
>  1, Scott
>  2, Jack
>
> I want to copy B.users.* into A.users.  But they users has a primary
> key.  1,Scott would not be allowed to be copied?
>
> insert into A.users (name) select B.users.name
>
> Does that seem like it is the right way?
>
> Chris
>
>
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