Question

I have 2 tables
Table NAME (id, name, phone, city, state, rid)
Table NAMES2 (id, name, phone, city)

This SQL statment is not working:
INSERT INTO NAME (id, name, phone, city, rid) VALUES ((SELECT id, name, phone, citY from NAMES2 WHERE city=”Bangalore”),’72’)

I want rid field in Table NAME to have 72 for all the records inserted from table NAMES2.
Note: both the tables are not identical.

Answer 1

Try this query –

INSERT INTO NAME (id, name, phone, city, rid)
  SELECT id, name, phone, citY, 72 FROM NAMES2 WHERE city = 'Bangalore'

If field rid has default value 72 (run SHOW CREATE TABLE to view it), then you can use this query –

INSERT INTO NAME (id, name, phone, city)
  SELECT id, name, phone, citY FROM NAMES2 WHERE city = 'Bangalore'