Question

First of all I tried this Insert Data Into Tables Linked by Foreign Key and didn’t get the answer.

I have 3 tables:

Table: Customers

ID -------LastName-------FirstName-------PhoneNumber

Table: Order

ID-------Status-------CustomerID

Table: OrderLine

ID-------OrderID-------Product-------Quantity-------PricePerUnit

I run the following query

SqlCommand myCommand2 = 
   new SqlCommand(@"INSERT INTO Order (Status, CustomerID) 
                    VALUES(13016, SELECT ID FROM Customers WHERE FirstName = 'Garderp')", 
                  myConnection);`

and it throws exception

Syntax error near Order

How can I add data into table with foreign key in SQL Server 2008 especially in this particular case?

Answer 1

It should be:

SqlCommand myCommand2 = new SqlCommand(@"INSERT INTO [Order] (Status, CustomerID) " 
   + " SELECT 13016, ID 
       FROM Customers 
       WHERE FirstName = 'Garderp')"
, myConnection);