Question

I’m writing a stored procedure where I’m declaring a temporary table. I need to query multiple rows from the database into that table from a query that I’ve already written. Then I’m doing another query of that temp table. The reason why is lengthy to explain but it’s basically a work-around. Anyways…

The actual query is too lengthy to put here but it’s basically like this.

DECLARE @a TABLE
(
    Museum VARCHAR(32),
    MuseumID INT, 
    Country VARCHAR(32),
    City VARCHAR(32),
    Paintings VARCHAR(32),
    Sculptures VARCHAR(32)
);

Now I need to insert rows into this temp table:

I tried this but I don’t think it will work

INSERT INTO @a VALUES
(
    SELECT DISTINCT
           TOP (100) PERCENT dbo.Museum.Museum,
                             dbo.Musuem.MuseumID,
                             dbo.World. Country,

            BLAH BLAH BLAH FROM AND WHERE JUNK
 )

How can I insert the queried rows from my query into @a?

Please help thanks.

I also tried BULK INSERT but I don’t think I’m doing the syntax right. If anyone could help that would be awesome.

Answer 1

You can do this with INSERT ... SELECT:

INSERT INTO @a 
    SELECT DISTINCT
            dbo.Museum.Museum,
                             dbo.Musuem.MuseumID,
                             dbo.World. Country,

            BLAH BLAH BLAH FROM AND WHERE JUNK

TOP 100 PERCENT is absolutely meaningless. Why is it there?