Re: Retrieve data, add new fields and enter it in new table
| From: | David Robley | Date: | Wed, 23 Jun 2004 06:40:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Retrieve data, add new fields and enter it in new table | ||
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Justin Baiocchi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to do the following:
> - retrieve data from a table based on the $id field (easy enough)
> - add a few more fields to the data set, then
> - enter the data (and new fields) into a new table (based on the
> selected $id field)
>
> I'm just not sure how to structure this, do I use a temporary table, add
> the new fields, then move the data set into the target table?
> Or is there a better way?
>
> Thanks
> Justin
Why not just insert it in the target table? If you need to create a new
table for each entry, just do a CREATE before the insert.
David
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