Kysely•2y ago

Noob Question: SQL INSERT that combines static values with a SELECT statement

Hey Kysely community! I'm just getting into Kysely and I have a question about how I could run the following query with Kysely:

INSERT INTO employees (employee_id, first_name, last_name, department_id)
VALUES (1234, 'John', 'Doe', 
        (SELECT department_id 
         FROM departments 
         WHERE department_name = 'Sales')
);

INSERT INTO employees (employee_id, first_name, last_name, department_id)
VALUES (1234, 'John', 'Doe', 
        (SELECT department_id 
         FROM departments 
         WHERE department_name = 'Sales')
);

I could get an INSERT + SELECT query to work, but wasn't sure how to add static values into the mix. Thanks in advance : )

2 Replies

Kristian Notari•2y ago

kysely.insertInto('employees').values({
employee_id: 1234, 
first_name: 'John', 
last_name: 'Doe', 
department_id: eb => eb.selectFrom('departments').select('department_id').where(...)
})

kysely.insertInto('employees').values({
employee_id: 1234, 
first_name: 'John', 
last_name: 'Doe', 
department_id: eb => eb.selectFrom('departments').select('department_id').where(...)
})

does this work? can't test it right now

AlfieGoatOP•2y ago

That's exactly it, thank you!!

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Noob Question: SQL INSERT that combines static values with a SELECT statement