Question

I want to insert records in a table with certain values which I got from a SELECT query on other other tables.

SELECT TOP 1000 c.ContaId
FROM FastGroupe fg
INNER JOIN FastParticipant fp 
    ON fg.FastGroupeId = fp.FastGroupeId
INNER JOIN Participant p
    ON fp.ParticipantId = p.ParticipantId
INNER JOIN Contact c
    ON p.ContaId = c.ContaId
WHERE FastGroupeName like '%Group%'

I want to use the IDs I get from this query to insert in another table Member which use ContaId as a foreign key.

I want to use a WHILE loop, but I don’t know the number of records I will get from the SELECT query.

So, is there a workaround for this problem.

EDIT

This is the table Member

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Request](
[MemberId] int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [ContaId] int NOT NULL,
[PromoId] int NOT NULL
);

The PromoId is a non null column, but I want to put the same value for all the records I am about to create.

The Member records have to be like this

 MemberId = Automatic,
 ContaId = // one of the query results,
 PromoId = 91

Answer 1

I want to use the IDs I get from this query to insert in another table
Member which use ContaId as a foreign key.

You can use INSERT INTO .. SELECT instead of cursors and while loops like so:

INSERT INTO Member(ContaId)
SELECT TOP 1000 c.ContaId
FROM FastGroupe fg
INNER JOIN FastParticipant fp 
    ON fg.FastGroupeId = fp.FastGroupeId
INNER JOIN Participant p
    ON fp.ParticipantId = p.ParticipantId
INNER JOIN Contact c
    ON p.ContaId = c.ContaId
WHERE FastGroupeName like '%Group%'

Update: Try this:

INSERT INTO Member(ContaId, PromoId)
SELECT TOP 1000 c.ContaId, 91 AS PromoId
FROM FastGroupe fg
...

This will insert the same value 91 for the PromoId for all the 1000 records. And since the MemberId is set to be automatic, just ignore it in the columns’ list and it will get an automatic value.