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dnagirl
dnagirl

Reputation: 20456

INSERT INTO ... SELECT FROM ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE

I'm doing an insert query where most of many columns would need to be updated to the new values if a unique key already existed. It goes something like this:

INSERT INTO lee(exp_id, created_by, 
                location, animal, 
                starttime, endtime, entct, 
                inact, inadur, inadist, 
                smlct, smldur, smldist, 
                larct, lardur, lardist, 
                emptyct, emptydur)
SELECT id, uid, t.location, t.animal, t.starttime, t.endtime, t.entct, 
       t.inact, t.inadur, t.inadist, 
       t.smlct, t.smldur, t.smldist, 
       t.larct, t.lardur, t.lardist, 
       t.emptyct, t.emptydur 
FROM tmp t WHERE uid=x
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE ...; 
//update all fields to values from SELECT, 
//       except for exp_id, created_by, location, animal, 
//       starttime, endtime

I'm not sure what the syntax for the UPDATE clause should be. How do I refer to the current row from the SELECT clause?

Upvotes: 152

Views: 184983

Answers (4)

yitta hhh
yitta hhh

Reputation: 21

ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=VALUES(a), b=VALUES(b) will not work when fields' name are different e.g. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=VALUES(c), b=VALUES(c) sometimes fails, but ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=t.c, b=t.c... works.

Upvotes: 2

Vũ Anh Tuấn
Vũ Anh Tuấn

Reputation: 31

when SELECT statement has a GROUP BY clause.

    ....
    ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE    
    larct=VALUES(larct), lardur=VALUES(lardur),lardist= 
    VALUES(lardist)

Upvotes: 3

iCurious
iCurious

Reputation: 8303

Although I am very late to this but after seeing some legitimate questions for those who wanted to use INSERT-SELECT query with GROUP BY clause, I came up with the work around for this.

Taking further the answer of Marcus Adams and accounting GROUP BY in it, this is how I would solve the problem by using Subqueries in the FROM Clause

INSERT INTO lee(exp_id, created_by, location, animal, starttime, endtime, entct, 
                inact, inadur, inadist, 
                smlct, smldur, smldist, 
                larct, lardur, lardist, 
                emptyct, emptydur)
SELECT sb.id, uid, sb.location, sb.animal, sb.starttime, sb.endtime, sb.entct, 
       sb.inact, sb.inadur, sb.inadist, 
       sb.smlct, sb.smldur, sb.smldist, 
       sb.larct, sb.lardur, sb.lardist, 
       sb.emptyct, sb.emptydur
FROM
(SELECT id, uid, location, animal, starttime, endtime, entct, 
       inact, inadur, inadist, 
       smlct, smldur, smldist, 
       larct, lardur, lardist, 
       emptyct, emptydur 
FROM tmp WHERE uid=x
GROUP BY location) as sb
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE entct=sb.entct, inact=sb.inact, ...

Upvotes: 68

Marcus Adams
Marcus Adams

Reputation: 53830

MySQL will assume the part before the equals references the columns named in the INSERT INTO clause, and the second part references the SELECT columns.

INSERT INTO lee(exp_id, created_by, location, animal, starttime, endtime, entct, 
                inact, inadur, inadist, 
                smlct, smldur, smldist, 
                larct, lardur, lardist, 
                emptyct, emptydur)
SELECT id, uid, t.location, t.animal, t.starttime, t.endtime, t.entct, 
       t.inact, t.inadur, t.inadist, 
       t.smlct, t.smldur, t.smldist, 
       t.larct, t.lardur, t.lardist, 
       t.emptyct, t.emptydur 
FROM tmp t WHERE uid=x
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE entct=t.entct, inact=t.inact, ...

Upvotes: 220

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