SQL创建表在SQL Server Management Studio SSMS中不起作用

Question

For some reason I can't create a new table from an another in SSMS.

use master;

create table bop as
select *
from dbo.Data$
where [2016] is not null and 
      [Series Name] = 'Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)' or 
      [Series Name] = 'Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)'
order by [Country Name] asc;

It outputs the error:

Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'select'.

Anybody experienced this problem before? I'm thinking its a bug

Answer 1

That is invalid SQL syntax for SQL Server :

Instead you can do :

select d.* into bop
from dbo.Data$ d
where [2016] is not null and 
      [Series Name] in ('Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)', 'Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)')
order by [Country Name] asc;

Note :

• Use IN clause if you have a more than one constant values that is easier read & write.

• OR evaluates constant values one by one with no particular order, while IN sorts the list. So, IN is faster in some circumstances.

• OR will not include null s values if you have, but IN will include null . So, choose one of them based on what actually you want.

Answer 2

Try below way

SELECT * INTO schema.newtable FROM schema.oldtable WHERE 1 = 0

From your query you have to remove

create table bop as  ## this portion

and instead of it you have to add select * INTO bop

So your query will be

select * INTO bop
from dbo.Data$
where [2016] is not null and 
    (  [Series Name] = 'Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)' or 
      [Series Name] = 'Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)'
    )
order by [Country Name]

Instead of OR you can use in operator

select * INTO bop
    from dbo.Data$
    where [2016] is not null and 
          [Series Name] in ('Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)',
           'Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)')
    order by [Country Name]

Your Error analysis

• Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 4 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'select'.

As you used wrong sql statement to create one table from others table thats why sqlserver thrown systax Error

Answer 3

You have several issues with your query. The correct syntax for what you intend is:

select d.*
into bop
from dbo.Data$ d
where [2016] is not null and 
      [Series Name] in ('Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)', 'Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)');

Note the following:

• SQL Server uses select into , not create table as . This is your basic syntax error.
• Presumably, you want either series name and 20161 not to be NULL . in does this. AND has higher precedence than OR`, so your logic does something different.
• ORDER BY is not appropriate, unless the destination table has an identity column. SQL tables represent unordered sets. The only ordering would be on the values in the identity column.