Question

I just created a table in SQL 2008. This table has two columns.

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[MyTable]
(
[pkey] [bigint] not null,
[Number] [int]  not null
)

Now I want to insert values into it. The first column can be obtained from another table dbo.OldTable. It has many records and I don’t want to manually insert the data. The second column Number can be a 0 in each row. What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

INSERT INTO [dbo].[MyTable](pkey, Number)
SELECT Column, 0
FROM dbo.OldTable