Insert Into with nested Selects

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Insert Into with nested Selects

domleg

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April 7, 2014 at 10:46 am

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Hello,
I have a table HemAnimal and a table HemTransfer.
For some reason there is no row created in the table HemTransfer when an animal is added to the database by the program.
So I need to manually create the HemTransfer event. I would like to do this using a script instead of copy row, paste row and edit fields manually.
I came up with this:
Use Lely
Set Identity_Insert dbo.HemTransfer ON
Insert into dbo.HemTransfer (TraTrtId,TraAniId,TraDate)
Values (2,(Select HemAnimal.AniId Where HemAnimal.AniUserNumber = 123456),(Select HemAnimal.AniBirthday Where HemAnimal.AniUserNumber = 123456))
Set Identity_Insert dbo.HemTransfer OFF
Basically this says "Create a row and set the transfer type to birthday, get the ID from the HemAnimal table where the Animal Number is 123456, set the transfer date equal to the Animals birthdate from the HemAnimal table for Animal 123456."
I get this error:
Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
The multi-part identifier "HemAnimal.AniUserNumber" could not be bound.
Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
The multi-part identifier "HemAnimal.AniId" could not be bound.
Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
The multi-part identifier "HemAnimal.AniUserNumber" could not be bound.
Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Line 4
The multi-part identifier "HemAnimal.AniBirthday" could not be bound.
What am I doing wrong?

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286573 More actions · Answer 1

Your subselects don't have a FROM

Select HemAnimal.AniId Where HemAnimal.AniUserNumber = 123456

It seems that your inserts are over complicated but without more details about the tables and what you are trying to do it is difficult to offer any direction.

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183698 More actions · Answer 2

Sean is right, you're overcomplicating things. You can use INSERT INTO...SELECT instead of values.

INSERT INTO dbo.HemTransfer (

TraTrtId

,TraAniId

,TraDate

)

SELECT 2

,ha.AniId

,ha.AniBirthday

FROM HemAnimal ha --This is a guess

WHERE ha.AniUserNumber = 123456

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 3

Try the following:

Use Lely;

GO

Set Identity_Insert dbo.HemTransfer ON;

go

Insert into dbo.HemTransfer (TraTrtId,TraAniId,TraDate)

Select 2, HemAnimal.AniId, HemAnimal.AniBirthday from HemAnimal Where HemAnimal.AniUserNumber = 123456;

go

Set Identity_Insert dbo.HemTransfer OFF;

go

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003853 More actions · Answer 4

Why are we inserting into an IDENTITY column???? :ermm::blink::crying::pinch::sick:

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286573 More actions · Answer 5

Jeff Moden (4/7/2014)
Why are we inserting into an IDENTITY column???? :ermm::blink::crying::pinch::sick:

Sounds to me like the OP is going inserting data that was missed in the original programming. Therefore you need to insert those values into the identity column to ensure RI.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003853 More actions · Answer 6

Sean Lange (4/7/2014)
Jeff Moden (4/7/2014)
Why are we inserting into an IDENTITY column???? :ermm::blink::crying::pinch::sick:
Sounds to me like the OP is going inserting data that was missed in the original programming. Therefore you need to insert those values into the identity column to ensure RI.

I hope that's the reason and not some misconception that PK reusage is a good idea or worse. I'm hoping the OP will answer on this one.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Create a Tally Function (fnTally)