From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Subject: Re: INSERT INTO ... SELECT
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:57:05 -0400
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Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when trissl@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Silke Trissl) would write:
> I would like to insert into a table values from a table and user
> defined ones. Here is the example:
>
> I found this statement to insert values from another table:
>
> INSERT INTO test_table (cust_id, cust_name) SELECT id, name from CUSTOMER;
>
> But the test_table has another column, which should have the same
> value for all the customers.
>
> Is there something like
>
> INSERT INTO test_table (int_id, cust_id, cust_name) '1', SELECT id,
> name from CUSTOMER:
>
> and if so, what ist the correct statement? If not, what is an
> alternative to insert a single row at a time?

You're close.

The constant term needs to be inside the SELECT.

Try:
  insert into test_table (int_id, cust_id, cust_name)
      select '1', id, name from customer;
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