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I have two mysql tables with a one-to-many relationship.

I want to find all rows in the 'one' table which do not have a row in the 'many' table and add a single row in the 'many' table for each one.

How can I edit my query to achieve this?

INSERT INTO many_table SET 
    id = ( SELECT id 
           FROM one_table 
           JOIN many_table ON one_table.id = many_table.related_id 
           WHERE many_table.related_id is null
         ) 
    name = 'george'
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  • would something like this work INSERT INTO many_table SET id = ( SELECT id FROM one_table JOIN many_table ON one_table.id = many_table.related_id WHERE many_table.related_id is null) name = 'george'
    – megaman
    Feb 14 '20 at 0:37
  • Providing a minimal reproducible example is the best place to start for questions on query help. You can see here that there's a syntax error in what you've suggested in comments. I suggest playing with the fiddle and adding details based on that to your question.
    – Peter Vandivier
    Feb 14 '20 at 9:02
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Not sure what is name = 'george' is doing but assume it's part of the filtering in WHERE clause.

INSERT INTO many_table (id, name)
SELECT o.id, o.name
FROM one_table o
LEFT JOIN many_table m ON m.related_id = o.id
WHERE o.name = 'george' AND m.id IS NULL
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  • but assume it's part of the filtering in WHERE clause. I think it is an expression in SET (simply comma is lost) - 'george' is a value which must be inserted into NOT NULL field as a default value which is not set or is wrongly set in table structure.
    – Akina
    Feb 14 '20 at 5:13
  • I was unclear with the name = 'george' bit what i was trying to show is code which would read a list of IDs from the one_table and for each one create a row in the many_table filling in the many_tables related_id field every time the name = george was supposed to add the value george to a name column (which i previously did not mention) to every new row created in the many table
    – megaman
    Feb 14 '20 at 12:40
  • @megaman Updated.
    – Eric
    Feb 14 '20 at 17:15
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INSERT INTO many_table(id,name)

 SELECT  id ,'george'
           FROM one_table
           LEFT JOIN many_table ON one_table.id = many_table.related_id 
           WHERE many_table.related_id is null
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  • How does this differ from the other answer?
    – Michael Green
    Feb 22 '20 at 10:15

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