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Asked: 2026-06-04T12:48:56+00:00

I was tasked with migrating data from a MSSQL server to a MySQL server.

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I was tasked with migrating data from a MSSQL server to a MySQL server. I figured it’d be easier for me to first convert the MSSQL database to an MS Access database, so I could mess with it, then export it as MySQL.

So, I have a table, called companies:

companyID |    name        |     c_phon  |  c_email                   | c_address
    1       StackOverflow     5555555555     Joel@stackoverflow.com      NYC
    2       Google            5558675309     Google@google.com           NYC

In our new database, we’ve changed how these fields are being saved. Instead of each row having a phone number, email, and address, we’re using a prefs table.

prefs:

prefID  |  prefName
  1         c_phone
  2         c_email
  3         c_address

My issue is, how to I convert each field into it’s own row in our companyPrefs table. It should look something like this:

companyID | prefID | prefValue
    1         1      5555555555
    1         2      Joel@stackoverflow.com
    1         3      NYC
    2         1      5558675309
    2         2      Google@google.com
    2         3      NYC

I don’t know how to use vbscript or whatever, so I was trying to do this using SQL.

INSERT INTO comanyPrefs (companyID, prefID, prefValue)
SELECT companyID, prefID, @fieldName
FROM companies, preferences
WHERE @fieldName = prefName

Obviously this doesn’t work. How can I select fields using a variable field name? How can I insert a row for each field?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re on the right track. However, you would need to insert for each possible field, something like this:

    INSERT INTO companyPrefs (companyID, prefID, prefValue)
SELECT companyID, (select prefID from prefs where prefName = 'c_phone'), c_phone
FROM companies where c_phone is not null
UNION
SELECT companyID, (select prefID from prefs where prefName = 'c_email'), c_email
FROM companies where c_email is not null
UNION
SELECT companyID, (select prefID from prefs where prefName = 'c_address'), c_address
FROM companies where c_address is not null

    Demo: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!3/5cf87/1

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