Question

I’m running a SQL server and need to run some commands using the SELECT ... INTO commands. At the moment (as a test) I am running this command:

SELECT * 
INTO `assets_copy` 
FROM `assets`

The simplest example possible, and yet it still won’t run. I get the error:

MySQL said:  

#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'assets_copy` FROM `assets`  LIMIT 0, 30' at line 1 

So I’m wondering if the version of SQL I’m using doesn’t support this? I’m using 3.23.49 of MySQL.

Answer 1

Based on the documentation, MySQL does not support the SELECT INTO syntax. Instead you have to use

INSERT INTO assets_copy
  SELECT * FROM assets;

MySQL Server doesn’t support the SELECT … INTO TABLE Sybase SQL extension. Instead, MySQL Server supports the INSERT INTO … SELECT standard SQL syntax, which is basically the same thing.