On Jan 17, 2008 2:22 PM, Kerry Frater wrote:
> Can someone please advise. I am looking to create a "multiuser" friendly way
> of getting a subset number of rows from a table into another whilst making a
> modification.

> create temporary table Ttable1 (select * from masterlist where ref='ABCDE');
> update Ttable1 set ref='SMI0C001';
> insert into sublist select * from Ttable1;
> drop Ttable1;

How about:
INSERT INTO sublist (ref, field1, field2, field3)
SELECT
  'SMI0C001'
  , field1
  , field2
  , field3
FROM
  masterlist
WHERE
  ref='ABCDE'
;

Jochem

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