Questions tagged [insert]
A core statement in SQL that does what it says on the tin: inserts data into a table.
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Lock Escalation happening while inserting few million records into a table in production
I want to insert few million records into a table in my production database.
I am not updating any existing rows.I am just doing
INSERT INTO TAB1
SELECT
COL1,COL2,COL3
FROM TAB2
This table has an ...
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How can I obtain the last inserted row with INSERT … SELECT in PostgreSQL?
I'm trying to batch-copy data in a specific order from one table to another in PostgreSQL 12-beta2. The table is not using sequences, but contains an composite unique Primary Key (user_id, object_id).
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Is there a mechanism in SQL that automatically generates a unique alphanumeric identifier for each row?
I need a unique identifier for objects in tables other than the autoincremented id and it would be helpful if it is generated by SQL after insert to take the load off of the web server
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Insert values with leading zeros
How do I insert values with leading zeros in it?
Example.
db2 "insert into db2inst1.asd_currency
(currency_code, currency_name, currency_decimal_count, currency_code_desc)
values ('007', 'afghani'...
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how to insert an if check in an insert
I have an after insert at the statment level, which must insert the positive or negative result in an attribute based on the count of the values of other attributes. But control structures cannot be ...
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WHILE Loop for data migration/merge with multiple fields for matching
Ok so I have two identical databases in two parts of the world. I need to merge everything into the one I will call North (the other being South). North data trumps South data. I started thinking ...
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When is an Insert committed?
If I highlight/select both the statements below, without a GO stmt between them, will the Insert be committed once it shows 'Rows Affected 1234' in results pane?
If so, can I then cancel the Rebuild ...
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Which part of a DB bulk insert takes the most time?
One of the most common tip with regards to DB writing is to group your inserts and execute them as a single transaction. My question is, which part of the [begin transaction] - insert - [commit ...
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What are the numbers in the output of an INSERT statement, and why is the first one zero? [closed]
When you INSERT, you'll get back something like
# CREATE TABLE foo ( a int );
# INSERT INTO foo VALUES (1),(2);
INSERT 0 2
What is the first and second number after the INSERT (the 0 and the 2)?
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SELECT Every Parent Table Record and INSET Multiple Record in Child Table Against the Parent_Id
Suppose I have two tables name company and screensavers as given below:
**Company:**
id (pk auto inc)
name (varchar)
**ScereenSavers:**
id (pk auto inc)
name (varchar)
path (varchar)
company_id (int)...
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Error: There is a column named in table “*SELECT*”, but it cannot be referenced from this part of the query
Assume we have a simple table,
CREATE TABLE foo ( a int PRIMARY KEY, b int );
I'm wanting to write a complex query inside and refer to that query
INSERT INTO foo
SELECT 5 AS z
ON CONFLICT (a)
DO ...
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When does autocommit take place when many rows are inserted as a single statement?
I have some problems with performance of insertion of about 50000 rows into a table. As an optimization it's advised to start a transaction explicitly to avoid committing on each row. However, I ...
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How to specify column positions in insert statements generated by pg_dump?
I need to add a column to a specific position in a table. I'm doing this because I'm merging tables from two different databases:
DB1.schema1.table1 has these columns:
name_pk | date | type
while ...
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INSERT INTO from 2 unrelated tables
I need to INSERT INTO a new table (FinalTable) from 2 unrelated tables, but values from Table1 will need to be repeat for every value pulled from Table2.
Example:
Table1 Table2 ...
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Slow insert (trigger/indexes) processing
Whenever an insert is done in a table these tasks are executed:
One Trigger (see down).
Three indexes: one checks that a primary key is unique and the rest makes sure that two columns don't have ...
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Why am I receiving the identity insert error even after explicitly setting IDENTITY_INSERT ON and using a column list? [closed]
My code:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT SomeCoolDatabase.BoringOldSchema.TableWithIdentityColumn ON
INSERT INTO SomeCoolDatabase.BoringOldSchema.TableWithIdentityColumn
SELECT ColumnWithIdentity, ...
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How to effeciently save this kind of text into database?
I have this kind of text and want to save it to database:
I. Master Text I <<<Parent
I.A. Sub Master Text I &...
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How to copy data into same table based on existing data in sql?
It is possible to copy a set of rows based on Date column and insert in same table with different date?
For example : I have 5 rows with Date column value '201839'
I need to copy those 5 rows in '...
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INSERT INTO SELECT for a large table
I have a large table (200 million rows, 40GB). I tried to create a new table out of it by INSERT INTO SELECT. The process took 5 hours and consumed over 60GB of RAM. The size of the ibd file of the ...
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Multiple inserts using select row and variable combination with one SQL statement
I'm working with SQL 2008 R2 and have a need to find a specific row in a table that has three fields and then insert multiple rows into the same table with each insert using two values from the found ...
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how to prevent UPDATE of existing rows/record but allow INSERT using PostgreSQL trigger?
SOLVED
Edit: Trigger function and trigger are working fine with no errors, problem was with my database itself, dropped the database, created new, it's working now.
How do I prevent UPDATE on any ...
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InfluxDB batch insert only inserts the last line
I'm trying to insert some lines into a InfluxDB instance (running on Windows 7 x64) from both a .txt and a .csv file, but it's only inserting the last line on the file.
I'm currently using the ...
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Replace NULLs with value
Here is my temporary table:
CREATE TABLE #test123(
c1 float,
c2 float,
c3 float,
c4 float,
c5 float
);
INSERT #test123(c1,c2,c3,c4,c5)
VALUES (2,3,NULL,1,2),
(2,NULL,NULL,...
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Insert performance rapidly slowing down [duplicate]
I have a source table with about 500,000 not normalized data and insert it into 4 different tables related by foreign key constraints.
The first couple of thousand rows are inserted at a speed of ...
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Create table with constraint based on another column
Say a database has the following tables:
movie(id, title, rent_period)
customer(id, name)
I would like to create the following table:
CREATE TABLE rental (
movie_id int,
customer_id int,
...
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Very slow simple INSERT in transaction
I have I problematic query on my SQL Server where I could not find the problem. I have two simple tables, one for the "Headers" and one for the "Items" (each with an PK column, total of five fields ...
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select number that isn't in the table
So I have a table named reserveringen. inside the table there are (Reserveringsnummer(auto_increment and Unique), Voorstellingsnummer, Stoelnummer).
I also have a table named voorstelling
in that ...
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“INSERT INTO res_partner () VALUES ()” failure (autoincrement in postgres)
This is DDL for the table:
CREATE TABLE public.res_partner (
id serial NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT res_partner_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id)
);
This is SQL:
insert into public.res_partner () values ();
...
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SQL function which returns true/false depending on success of insert query
I want to write a SQL function which returns true if a certain INSERT inserted a row and false if no row was inserted. In this use case, we know that at most one row can be inserted.
I came up with ...
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Single-row INSERT…SELECT much slower than separate SELECT
Given the following heap table with 400 rows numbered from 1 to 400:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.N;
GO
SELECT
SV.number
INTO dbo.N
FROM master.dbo.spt_values AS SV
WHERE
SV.[type] = N'P'
...
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Disk space full during insert, what happens?
Today I discovered the harddrive which stores my databases was full. This has happened before, usually the cause is quite evident. Usually there is a bad query, which causes huge spills to tempdb ...
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How to insert into a MySQL table column, known its name as string?
I want to insert into a MySQL table (child table) column a certain value(int value). I know that the column name is:
'parent_data_ID'
But that column name is got from the following command:
SELECT ...
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MySQL insert into different databases tables based on PK value
Lets assume i have two databases, both having a table 'user_feedback', sharding data between the two databases. My goal is to insert all records where Primary key Id%2=0 goes to db1.user_feedback, and ...
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Pass parameter to trigger dynamically
I have a table on a mysql 5.7 db, containing say athletes with their mean, max, avg times in a specific sport.
I have another table that lists some calculated statistics based on those values.
I ...
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Delete data before INSERT
I have this table which is used to generate second table with the result:
INSERT INTO payment_transactions_daily_facts (count, volume, date, year, month, week, day, transaction_type, contract_id, ...
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How to insert into a table daily automatically in postgresql?
I'm trying to create a log of an inventory that runs daily
Basically on my log table i want to sum how many units have status1, how many units have status2, etc for every day
is there a way to fill ...
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Insert statement fails silently when a FK constaint can't be statically evaluated
I ran into an interesting issue which I'm not entirely sure how to address.
My tables:
CREATE TABLE entity (
id int GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
properties jsonb
);
CREATE ...
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Merge/Intersection between table and dataset - How to achieve?
Consider the following table:
Id Hash
----------- ----------------------------------
1 0x31F777F0804D301936411E3ECD760859
2 0xD64A593F3E9ACC972158D522A4289EA0
(Id is an ...
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There are some inserted records on galera cluster that does not exist!
We are using a galera cluster with 3 node and 2 database on it which they are related to each other by some applications.
The problem is, some records are inserted into table and galera generate id ...
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Very high (99%) insertion cost in estimated execution plan
I have four tables with 500,000 to 4,000,000 rows. The script joins them and insert into a temporary table with some where clause. It is taking long. The execution plan shows 99% cost only for the ...
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Occasional slow insertion speed because of FK trigger
I have two tables in master-child relationship (several children per master).
In one use-case a master with all of its children needs to be copied as new master. For this I'm using two select+insert ...
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Postgresql 10 There is no unique or exclusion constraint matching the ON CONFLICT specification
I currently have a table which looks like this:
CREATE TABLE "PDPC".collection
(
col_no bigint NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('"PDPC".collection_col_no_seq'::regclass),
q1 character varying(10000) ...
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Error 666 on clustered primary key
I am receiving error 666:
the maximum system-generated unique value for a duplicate group was
exceeded.
I am experiencing this on an Azure SQL Managed Instance.
However, I shouldn't be getting ...
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On the INSERT statement in H2, what does `DIRECT` mean?
I noticed on the grammar documentation for INSERT in the H2 Database Engine, the optional word DIRECT. The documentation says:
When using DIRECT, then the results from the query are directly ...
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Slow insert on very large tables, (even in transactions)
I have a table with about 50 million rows, the table itself is fairly simple
CREATE TABLE Word (id integer PRIMARY KEY, word TEXT UNIQUE)
I then do an insert
INSERT OR IGNORE INTO Word (word) ...
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Map auto increment ids on multi-row insert
I have the following table with an AUTO_INCREMENT column.
CREATE TABLE animals (
id MEDIUMINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
name CHAR(30) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
);
Usually I load multiple ...
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Inserting into table depending on conditions [closed]
I'm trying to insert data into table but depending on the content it is supposed to be done different ways. My question is whether there exists such function that will work like follows:
WHEN ...
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INSERT AFTER trigger failing with multiple rows
I have a trigger (AFTER INSERT) that has been working in single inserts, and I believed it would work for multiples but its not. I researched it and am currently stuck as what I'm reading implies it ...
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Insert sometimes takes more than 2 seconds in table with +6 million records
I have a table in my database that acts like a log to record accesses to some selected endpoints of my application.
That table contains:
id (primary key)
The http method (GET, POST, PUT, etc)
The ...
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How to insert data in table with constraint on column? - in parallel queries
I have an Oracle database with a table with a unique field in it:
create table t(n number, CONSTRAINT n_unq UNIQUE (n));
Then from a session-1 someone is trying to insert some data:
insert into t(n)...
