[plug] mysql query questoin

[Jon Miller]

I guess what I need to know is does MySQL know that the table I want the
info to go into is in another database, if not how do I tell MySQL this
information?  I can understand if the two (2) tables resides in the same
database, but they don't.

JLM

On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:33, Onno Benschop wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:09, Anne Busby wrote:
> > Try
> > 
> > INSERT INTO <table2> SELECT <fields> FROM <table>;
> 
> And if you don't have field names that don't match-up, then you need to
> make it so:
> 
> INSERT INTO table (field1, field2, field3) SELECT peter AS field1, paul
> AS field2, mary AS field3 FROM table2 WHERE something='fred'
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