Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:37:04 -0600 Reply-To: "Mark C. Stock" From: "Mark C. Stock" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: <4408c1d2.847343@news.hetnet.nl> Subject: Re: Reducing coding of insert into.. select statement Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 17:37:02 -0500 Organization: Enquery, Incorporated X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: Lines: 59 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.57.99.188 X-Trace: sv3-YQQnxFjPCkH720duF1ymVy3W/LL8aLAgn+SiE+3k+OiMrgmYl5igumpkIRrreOjtSmCeJlYCP9hEkiY!jA7jLEUfmMtrC1V1ZuofmFWVl2gQdjmgtKxhZeMYhbiNPuu4EtYh38/G1PagWBARW8R9eSQ2pGSl!Rg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:262748 "Jaap W. van Dijk" wrote in message news:4408c1d2.847343@news.hetnet.nl... : On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:55:24 -0000, Jeremy : wrote: : : >Hi folks : > : >To insert data from tab1@dblink into tab1 one can code simply: : > : >insert into tab1 : >select * : >from tab1@dblink; : > : >Now assume that the first column is called ID and is populated from a : >sequence SEQ and that we need to generate a new ID value for every row : >inserted, we have to code : > : >insert into tab1 (ID, col1, col2,col3) : >select SEQ.nextval, col1, col2, col3 : >from tab1@dblink; : > : >Now if tab1e has 100 coulmns that is a lot of column names to type. : > : >I was just wondering if there was any "quick" way of coding something : >like this where you only had to specify the target columns explicitly : >where their value was to be derived rather than directly copied from the : >source table? : > : >I don't think there is but thought I'd just see if anyone had any : >suggestions. Reason for asking is because we are knocking-up some : >scripts for copying data (subset of) between two databases and obviously : >need ot derive new IDs (and of course retain referential integrity). : > : > : >-- : >jeremy : > : >We use Oracle 9iR2 on Solaris 8 with the Oracle HTTP Server and : >mod_plsql : : If you put an alias on the remote table you can use that in the SELECT : list: : : insert into tab1 : select SEQ.nextval,remtab.* : from tab1@dblink remtab; : : Jaap. but then you've got the new value from the sequence and the PK -- from the OP's first example, you'd end up with: insert into tab1 (ID, col1, col2,col3) select SEQ.nextval,ID, col1, col2, col3 ++ mcs