I am proficient in SQL-Server and other forms of SQL, but am trying to learn Oracle SQL. For some reason I cannot get even the simplest form of INSERT INTO .. SELECT ..
to work, it always fails with "SQL command not properly ended."
Here is my current example:
CREATE TABLE table1 (year INT, id INT, dat DATE, categ VARCHAR(99));
INSERT INTO table1
(year, id, dat, categ)
select year, id, dat, categ from table1 where id=5000 and year=2013;
Here's a SqlFiddle of it: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/c4d34/1
I cannot seem to figure out what's wrong here. I have checked about a dozen other related question here at SO and more than another dozen on Google but all of the answers either don't apply, or don't work. I have also tried about a million variations of the commands above, nothing seems to work.
Any help greatly appreciated.
FWIW, I now think that this is just a SQLFiddle problem, as many had contended.
The Oracle User who reported the problem to me with my code, was of course using the full SQL statement, before I had stripped it down to try to isolate the problem. That query had a completely different problem that just happened to report the same error in SQLFiddle. Specifically, its problem was that I was using As
for table aliases, which apparently are invalid in Oracle (or perhaps, just in the query I had written).
In any event, sincere thanks to all who tried to help me.
CREATE TABLE table1 (year INT, id INT, dat DATE, categ VARCHAR(99))
/
INSERT INTO table1
(year, id, dat, categ)
select year, id, dat, categ from table1 where id=5000 and year=2013
This works, that is, if you paste both statements in the left (schema) window in SQL fiddle. I dont' think SQL Fiddle allows insert..select
in the SQL window at all.