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Hey all i am trying to figure out how to go about inserting a new record using the following query:

SELECT user.id, user.name, user.username, user.email, 
 IF(user.opted_in = 0, 'NO', 'YES') AS optedIn 
FROM 
 user
 LEFT JOIN user_permission AS userPerm ON user.id = userPerm.user_id
ORDER BY user.id;

My INSERT query so far is this:

INSERT INTO user 
SELECT * 
FROM user 
 LEFT JOIN user_permission AS userPerm ON user.id = userPerm.user_id;

However, i am not sure how to do VALUE('','','','', etc etc) when using left and inner joins.

So what i am looking to do is this:

User table:

id | name | username | password | OptIn
--------------------------------------------------------------------
562 Bob Barker bBarker BBarker@priceisright.com 1

And also the user_permission table

user_id | Permission_id
-------------------------
562 4

UPDATE
So like this?

INSERT INTO user (name, username, password, email, opted_in) VALUES ('Bbarker','Bbarker','blahblahblah','Bbarker@priceisright.com',0);
INSERT INTO user_permission (user_id, permission_id) VALUES (LAST_INSERT_ID(),4);

You have to be specific about the columns you are selecting. If your user table had four columns id, name, username, opted_in you must select exactly those four columns from the query. The syntax looks like:

INSERT INTO user (id, name, username, opted_in)
 SELECT id, name, username, opted_in 
 FROM user LEFT JOIN user_permission AS userPerm ON user.id = userPerm.user_id

However, there does not appear to be any reason to join against user_permission here, since none of the columns from that table would be inserted into user. In fact, this INSERT seems bound to fail with primary key uniqueness violations.

MySQL does not support inserts into multiple tables at the same time. You either need to perform two INSERT statements in your code, using the last insert id from the first query, or create an AFTER INSERT trigger on the primary table.

INSERT INTO user (name, username, email, opted_in) VALUES ('a','b','c',0);
/* Gets the id of the new row and inserts into the other table */
INSERT INTO user_permission (user_id, permission_id) VALUES (LAST_INSERT_ID(), 4)

Or using a trigger:

CREATE TRIGGER creat_perms AFTER INSERT ON `user`
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
 INSERT INTO user_permission (user_id, permission_id) VALUES (NEW.id, 4)
END

you can't use VALUES clause when inserting data using another SELECT query. see INSERT SYNTAX

INSERT INTO user
(
 id, name, username, email, opted_in
)
(
 SELECT id, name, username, email, opted_in
 FROM user
 LEFT JOIN user_permission AS userPerm
 ON user.id = userPerm.user_id
);