Question

want to create a temporary table that has an auto_increment field plus a field that has to be select from another table.

Here is what I have (does not work)

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp  (id INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
(SELECT valueName AS valueName
FROM sometable
WHERE sometable.somevalue='00'));

these work by them selves but can get the right syntax to do both

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp  (id INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY)

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp AS SELECT valueName AS valueName FROM sometable
WHERE sometable.somevalue='00';

Answer 1

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp (
    id INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    valueName  varchar(16) // whatever type it should be
);

INSERT INTO tmp (valueName) SELECT valueName FROM sometable WHERE ...

Relevant docs here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/ansi-diff-select-into-table.html