Question

Rather than creating row after row of test data one at a time, is there a query I could run in MySQL to do the following:

Table name: my_table
Rows consist of: ID (auto-incremental), fname, lname, email, phone

The test data should be duplicated into 100 rows, where the data would be:

1   John   Doe   [e-mail]   0000000  
2   John   Doe   [e-mail]   0000000  
...  
100   John   Doe   [e-mail]   0000000  

Thanks!

Answer 1

This SQL should do the trick – just modify the INSERT

DELIMITER //


CREATE PROCEDURE addItems(number INT)
BEGIN
  label1: LOOP
    SET number = number - 1;
    INSERT ....
    IF number <> 0 THEN ITERATE label1; END IF;
    LEAVE label1;
  END LOOP label1;
END;//

DELIMITER ;
CALL addItems(100);