Question

I have a table like the following:

owner Pet
__________
Bob   Joe
Sam   Rob
Bob   George
Phil  Marge

Now, I want to create an INSERT statement for a new Owner, Nick. I want to make my insert statement such that for every pet that Bob owns, Nick owns one of the same name.

I’m trying to do this to accomplish my task:

INSERT INTO TABLE
VALUES ('Nick', Pet)
SELECT Pet FROM Table T
WHERE T.owner = 'Bob')

But the above isn’t working. Can anyone please tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Answer 1

You were close:

INSERT INTO TABLE (owner, Pet)
SELECT 'Nick', Pet FROM Table WHERE owner = 'Bob'