Aggregates are not allowed in the VALUES list of an INSERT statement.

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insert into #tempmonthly(Duration,occupancy,occupancyGreater4,[adhoc request],[average request],[cut paste percentage],[Total Unique users]) values('FINAL STATISTICS',avg(@occupancy),avg(@occupancy4),sum(@adhocrequestcount),avg(ISNULL(@T_Emp/@TotalDays,0.00)),avg(@cutpaste),sum(isnull(@totalunique_users,0.00)))

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why cant i do this ?

Posted 26-Jun-13 6:30am

anurag19289

Updated 26-Jun-13 7:22am

Aarti Meswania

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ZurdoDev 26-Jun-13 13:02pm

Because it is unsupported. Do INSERT INTO ... SELECT ....

Maciej Los 26-Jun-13 13:39pm

Exactly!
Please, post it as an answer!

Zoltán Zörgő 26-Jun-13 13:22pm

What is @occupancy exactly?

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ZurdoDev · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-26T08:03:00

Solution 1

You need to use:

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INSERT INTO Table1 (Field1, Field2,... FieldN)
SELECT 'FINAL STATISTICS', AVG(Field1), SUM(Field2), AVG(Field3), ... SUM(FieldN)
FROM Table2
GROUP BY ...

Posted 26-Jun-13 8:03am

ZurdoDev

Updated 26-Jun-13 20:24pm

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Maciej Los 26-Jun-13 14:09pm

+5!

Raja Sekhar S 27-Jun-13 1:13am

+5.....

**Nirav Prabtani** · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-26T20:04:00

Solution 2

Whenever you want to insert data from another table by select query....
then you have to include select query in Insert query...

therefor
query becomes....

SQL

INSERT INTO (Columns......) SELECT Query....

Posted 26-Jun-13 20:04pm

Nirav Prabtani