I am getting this error
SQL Error: ORA-00928: missing SELECT keyword
00928. 00000 - "missing SELECT keyword"`
when I am trying to insert like this
create table certf
(
certificate_id integer primary key,
certificate_name varchar(100) not null,
certificate_content varchar(300) not null
);
insert into certf (&certificate_id, &certificate_name, &certificate_content);
You are missing values actually:
insert into certf (certificate_id, certificate_name, certificate_content)
values (&certificate_id, &certificate_name, &certificate_content);
Notice that I also added the column list to the insert. This is a best practice.
If those are supposed to be values you're providing as substitution values, then you're missing the values keyword:
insert into certf values (&certificate_id,&certificate_name,&certificate_content);
But you need the string values to be in quotes:
insert into certf values (&certificate_id,'&certificate_name','&certificate_content');
and you should supply the column names too:
insert into certf (certificate_id,certificate_name,certificate_content)
values (&certificate_id,'&certificate_name','&certificate_content');
With you current code the parser is seeing that first list of - possible, but actually invalid in this case - identifiers, i.e column names; because it hasn't seen that values keyword yet. It's treated as something like:
insert into certf (42,some_name,some_content);
And having done that, and when it still doesn't see a values keyword or values list, it's expecting this to be an insert ... select construct instead. You could do it that way:
insert into certf (certificate_id,certificate_name,certificate_content)
select &certificate_id,'&certificate_name','&certificate_content' from dual;
But you aren't doing that. So it doesn't see the select either, and it throws the error you see.
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I am trying to insert into Table Users from Person table.
However, The first_name column in the person table contains apostrophe in the name (Eg- Rus'sell) which is preventing me from successful insertion. How do I fix this?
INSERT INTO USERS VALUES (SELECT FIRST_NAME,.........FROM PERSON);
INSERT INTO USERS VALUES (SELECT FIRST_NAME,.........FROM PERSON);
First of all, your insert statement is syntactically incorrect. It will raise ORA-00936: missing expression. The correct syntax to insert multiple records from source table is:
INSERT INTO table_name SELECT columns_list FROM source_table;
The VALUES keyword is used to insert a single record into table using following syntax:
INSERT INTO table_name(columns_list) VALUES (expressions_list);
If you already have the value stored in another table, then simple INSERT INTO..SELECT FROM should work without any issues. However, if you are trying to INSERT INTO..VALUES having single quotation marks, then the best way is to use Quoting string literal technique The syntax is q'[...]', where the "[" and "]" characters can be any of the following as long as they do not already appear in the string.
!
[ ]
{ }
( )
< >
You don't have to worry about the single-quotation marks within the string.
create table t(name varchar2(100));
insert into t values (q'[Rus'sell]');
insert into t values (q'[There's a ' quote and here's some more ' ' ']');
select * from t;
NAME
-----------------------------------------------
Rus'sell
There's a ' quote and here's some more ' ' '
I don't think your question is showing the complete details, because I can execute the following statements without any problem:
create table person( first_name varchar2(100));
create table users( first_name varchar2(100));
insert into person values ('Rus''sell');
insert into users select first_name from person;
Apologies for the obscurity if any in the question. The query I was working with was a long insert query with multiple joins.
To sum it was a stored proc where I was doing an insert, for which the data is given by long select query with multiple joins. One of the column is the FIRST_NAME column which had some values with Apostrophe in it (Rus'sell, Sa'm).
The Insert statement values were being generated as below which was causing an 'ORA-00917: missing comma' error.
INSERT INTO TABLE_NAME values (314159,0,'Rus'sell','Parks','...........)
I fixed this by Replacing the column in the select from a single quote to two single quotes, before giving it to the insert statement which basically solved the issue.
REPLACE(FIRST_NAME,'''','''''') AS FIRST_NAME
Hope it helps.
I just started with SQL and I'm having a problem when trying to insert an date and time.
The table structure:
CREATE TABLE Voo_Pac
(
codReserva INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
DataCont DATE,
HoraCont TIME
);
Code I'm trying to use to insert date and time:
INSERT INTO Voo_Pac (codReserva, DataCont, HoraCont)
VALUES (1), (15-08-2019), (12:13:52);
When I try to execute the code, it gives me the following message:
Error 1: could not prepare statement (1 near ":13": syntax error)
I assume you are using MySQL/MariaDB/SQL Server because of the TIME datatype?
Your insert should be
INSERT INTO Voo_Pac (codReserva, DataCont, HoraCont)
VALUES (1, '2019-08-15', '12:13:52');
see demo
You at least need quotes. And depending on your DB maybe a CAST to the apropiated type
INSERT INTO Voo_Pac (codReserva, DataCont, HoraCont)
VALUES 1, '15-08-2019', '12:13:52';
I tried to insert some rows into SQL server database and throws an error:
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'null' to data type bit
Could anyone explain what is this for?
This is not in a program.
What you might be trying
INSERT INTO TESTTABLE(BITCOLUMN) VALUES('NULL')
What should it actually be..
INSERT INTO TESTTABLE(BITCOLUMN) VALUES(NULL)
If you want to insert a null value into a column, you need to write NULL, and not 'NULL' (wrapping it in quotes indicates that it is a VARCHAR containing the letters N, U, L L - not a null value).
That is what the error message is telling you: you're trying to insert the VARCHAR value 'NULL' into a column that will only accept bit data.
Change the 'NULL' in your insert query to NULL.
You need something like this:
INSERT INTO TableName(ColumnName) VALUES(NULL); --this is the right way
Instead of this:
INSERT INTO TableName(ColumnName) VALUES('NULL'); --this is the wrong way
In postgres I have two tables like so
CREATE TABLE foo (
pkey SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
name TEXT
);
CREATE TABLE bar (
pkey SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
foo_fk INTEGER REFERENCES foo(pkey) NOT NULL,
other TEXT
);
What I want to do is to write a .sql script file that does the following
INSERT INTO foo(name) VALUES ('A') RETURNING pkey AS abc;
INSERT INTO bar(foo_fk,other) VALUES
(abc, 'other1'),
(abc, 'other2'),
(abc, 'other3');
which produces the error below in pgAdmin
Query result with 1 row discarded.
ERROR: column "abc" does not exist
LINE 3: (abc, 'other1'),
********** Error **********
ERROR: column "abc" does not exist
SQL state: 42703
Character: 122
Outside of a stored procedure how do a define a variable that I can use between statements? Is there some other syntax for being able to insert into bar with the pkey returned from the insert to foo.
You can combine the queries into one. Something like:
with foo_ins as (INSERT INTO foo(name)
VALUES ('A')
RETURNING pkey AS foo_id)
INSERT INTO bar(foo_fk,other)
SELECT foo_id, 'other1' FROM foo_ins
UNION ALL
SELECT foo_id, 'other2' FROM foo_ins
UNION ALL
SELECT foo_id, 'other3' FROM foo_ins;
Other option - use an anonymous PL/pgSQL block like:
DO $$
DECLARE foo_id INTEGER;
BEGIN
INSERT INTO foo(name)
VALUES ('A')
RETURNING pkey INTO foo_id;
INSERT INTO bar(foo_fk,other)
VALUES (foo_id, 'other1'),
(foo_id, 'other2'),
(foo_id, 'other3');
END$$;
You can use lastval() to ...
Return the value most recently returned by nextval in the current session.
This way you do not need to know the name of the seqence used.
INSERT INTO foo(name) VALUES ('A');
INSERT INTO bar(foo_fk,other) VALUES
(lastval(), 'other1')
, (lastval(), 'other2')
, (lastval(), 'other3')
;
This is safe because you control what you called last in your own session.
If you use a writable CTE as proposed by #Ihor, you can still use a short VALUES expression in the 2nd INSERT. Combine it with a CROSS JOIN (or append the CTE name after a comma (, ins) - same thing):
WITH ins AS (
INSERT INTO foo(name)
VALUES ('A')
RETURNING pkey
)
INSERT INTO bar(foo_fk, other)
SELECT ins.pkey, o.other
FROM (
VALUES
('other1'::text)
, ('other2')
, ('other3')
) o(other)
CROSS JOIN ins;
Another option is to use currval
INSERT INTO foo
(name)
VALUES
('A') ;
INSERT INTO bar
(foo_fk,other)
VALUES
(currval('foo_pkey_seq'), 'other1'),
(currval('foo_pkey_seq'), 'other2'),
(currval('foo_pkey_seq'), 'other3');
The automatically created sequence for serial columns is always named <table>_<column>_seq
Edit:
A more "robust" alternative is to use pg_get_serial_sequence as Igor pointed out.
INSERT INTO bar
(foo_fk,other)
VALUES
(currval(pg_get_serial_sequence('public.foo', 'pkey')), 'other1'),
(currval(pg_get_serial_sequence('public.foo', 'pkey')), 'other2'),
(currval(pg_get_serial_sequence('public.foo', 'pkey')), 'other3');
1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(country,ping,order) VALUES (China,1,1)' at line 1
this is my code
INSERT INTO
(country, ping, order)
VALUES
('China', '1', '1');
You're missing the Table Name. Try:
INSERT INTO MYTABLENAME (country,ping,order) VALUES ('China','1','1');
are ping and order text fields or numeric? if numeric remove the ticks from the 1's
INSERT INTO Tablename (country,ping,order) VALUES ('China',1,1)
could also be reserved word try:
INSERT INTO Tablename (country,`ping`,`order`) VALUES ('China',1,1)
Your insert statement is missing the table name:
INSERT INTO tbl_name (col_name,...) VALUES (expr,...)
you are missing table name. also make sure that those quotes are necessary