Question

I’m trying to insert some data to a table contains two things : “a string” and “maximum number in Order column + 1″.

This is my query:

INSERT INTO MyTable ([Text],[Order]) 
SELECT 'MyText' , (Max([Order]) + 1) 
FROM MyTable

What is going wrong with my query?

I’m using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3.

Answer 1

You can test this query like this:

I don’t receive error:

create table #MyTable
(
    [Text] varchar(40),
    [Order] int NOT NULL
)
INSERT INTO #MyTable([Text],[Order]) 
SELECT 'MyText' [Text], isnull(max([order]) + 1, 0) [Order] 
FROM #MyTable

drop table #MyTable

Original:

INSERT INTO MyTable ([Text],[Order]) 
SELECT 'MyText' [Text], max([Order]) + 1 [Order] 
FROM MyTable

or

INSERT INTO MyTable ([Text],[Order]) 
SELECT top 1 'MyText' [Text], max([Order]) + 1 [Order] 
FROM MyTable

limit is not valid in SQL Server as far as I know.