Ah, yes, I'm sorry: I mistyped. I have "titleID" and "artistID" in that table.
Puneet Kishor wrote: > > > George Roberge wrote: >> Greetings, all. >> >> I'm having trouble getting an insert statement to function properly, and >> am not sure if it is me, or this isn't supposed to be done. >> >> This is not the complete database, but to keep this issue simple: >> >> I have three tables: >> >> artists (artistID integer, lastname text) contains 1, 'Weaver' >> titles (titleID integer, title text) contains 1, 'Alien' >> cast (castID, artistID) > > > Note the definition of the table 'cast' -- it has columns 'castID' and > 'artistID') > >> >> I am experimenting with inserting data into the cast table using values >> that will be entered either by a user or selected from a list. In the >> meantime, I am manually entering the values "Weaver" and "Alien" to >> acquire title ID number and artist ID to store into the cast table. >> >> This simple statement works fine and yield the expected "1": insert into >> cast (titleID) select titleID from titles where title='Alien'; >> >> I get into trouble when I attempt to add the extra field: insert into >> cast (titleID, castID) select titleID from titles where title='Alien' > > > Note what you are trying to insert into cast above, namely 'titleID' > and 'castID'. Per your table definition, you have no 'titleID' in the > table 'cast' > > >> select artistID from artists where lastname='Weaver'; >> >> I know that the above syntax is incorrect. I have tried adding >> parentheses around the select statements (SELECT XXX), (SELECT XXX) and >> have tried the UNION in between, which I now understand adds separate >> rows into the table. I assumed that I could replace simple values with >> SELECT statements, but either I am wrong, or I have bogus syntax. >> >> I am new to using SQL outside of the "drag-and-drop" Access method, so >> this might be a silly question. >> >> If this can't be done I suppose I could add one value as a SELECT >> statement, then try to locate that row in the table and do an UPDATE to >> the other column (in this case, the cast column) where I just inserted >> the data. >> >> Thank you! >> George R. >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- www.andforthelamb.org www.outreachhockey.org They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
