Questions tagged [select-into]
Questions about the SELECT INTO statement used to create a table from a SELECT statement (or store scalar results into variables in a procedural language). See also the tag [ctas].
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Why am I getting the "Query has no destination for result" error?
I'm starting on PL/pgSQL, and have written this code to update and return a query, but it isn´t working.
This is the SQL error:
SQL Error [42601]: ERROR: query has no destination for result data
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InfluxDB InfluxQL v1.8 : Wrong timestamps used for writing to database
I wrote a bash script for inserting the summary of the daily energy database "xxx_d" into the monthly database "xxx_m" - triggered on every 1st day of the month at 02 o'clock by a ...
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How to implement "SELECT INTO" in Oracle with PostgreSQL commands?
I have seen many explanations about SELECT INTO in the oracle clause. I found a difference in applying SELECT INTO in Oracle and other SQL databases. In Oracle, the SELECT INTO statement retrieves ...
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How to speed up an insertion from a huge table with postgres?
I have 5 tables in my database with respectively a size of 70Gb, 500Mb, 400 Mb, 110Mb and 20 Mb.
I want to create a new table that contains all columns of all tables, so I tried 2 queries, the first ...
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Double registration when using select into
SQL Server 2019 CU15, Database Audit:
When auditing a SELECT on a database, everything looks fine,
but if I SELECT INTO a #myTempDB, I get double registration in the AUDIT LOG.
I created a test ...
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Create an empty table from an existing table keeping the default value constraint
I tried:
Select * Into <DestinationTableName> From <SourceTableName> Where 1 = 2
but the default value constraint is not created.
I have a smalldatetime column whose default value is ...
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Time to generate execution plan for select into from a view takes significantly more time than select
I have a view, vw_example, that is quite complicated and has multiple joins across multiple databases. This view has been causing significant delays when used as part of other queries, and we've ...
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Select into query, insert fails, but the table is created
I am using SQL Server 2016 and I tried to the following query.
SELECT CONVERT(BIGINT, 'A') col1 INTO #tmp
This query is obviously in error. Because it does not convert. However, the temporary table (...
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How much storage space do indexes and keys take for an SQL Table?
I have a table which is predominantly filled with NULLS and takes up 10 GB which was shocking since probably 90 to 95% of the table is NULLS. I copied this table over to a new database on the same SQL ...
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SQL Server: I need to estimate execution time of a SELECT .. INTO .. statement
To take backup of a big table (using SELECT .. INTO .. ) took me almost 4 hours in a machine with 4 CPUs and 16 GB of RAM. No external application/process were accessing the table during the operation....
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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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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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Select into statement
Is it possible to use "select into" statement when we are joining different tables which have 1 or more same column names?
Eg: Table1 has column name as description and Table2 has column name as ...
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