# Problem result sql query

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**Created:** [February 26, 2024, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/problem-result-sql-query/86345 "2024-02-26T08:52:39Z")\
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I know of no way to do that with MS SQL Server. If you adopt a competent database technology, you can use SQL UNNEST() and similar technologies:

> [@Taking a Dataset and Inserting it to a SQL temp table](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/taking-a-dataset-and-inserting-it-to-a-sql-temp-table/83852/4):
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> If you were using a competent database (the following is PostgreSQL), you can pass java arrays as arguments, and unnest() them in a FROM clause. For an example, I created a table in my psql forum playground called phrases, to be used in a join. When queried by itself, you get this dataset: "#NAMES" "prefix","suffix" "#TYPES" "str","I" "#ROWS","4" "Hello","1" "Good Bye","2" "Welcome to","3" "Whoa!","4" To go with that, in a custom property named lookups, I created the following unbound datase…

However, most people would combine the SELECT and the INSERT in a single statement, using this general syntax:

```auto
INSERT INTO someTable (someColumns....)
SELECT matchingColumns....
FROM ....

```

In the `matchingColumns` list of expressions, you might include expressions like:

```auto
    ? AS aColumnName

```

to inject desired constants into every new row.

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