#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; use DBI; my $db = 'DBI'->connect('dbi:SQLite:;db=:memory:', "", ""); $db->do('CREATE TABLE t1 (id INT, name TEXT, quantity INT)'); $db->do('CREATE TABLE t2 (id INT, quantity INT, action INT)'); my $populate = $db->prepare( 'INSERT INTO t1 (id, name, quantity) VALUES (?, ?, ?)'); $populate->execute(@$_) for [ 1, 'John', 12 ], [ 2, 'Jane', 14 ], [ 3, 'Jack', 16 ], [ 5, 'Joe', 22 ], [ 6, 'Josh', 27 ]; my $insert = $db->prepare( 'INSERT INTO t2 (action, id, quantity)' . ' SELECT ?, id, quantity FROM t1 WHERE name LIKE ? AND id > ?'); $insert->bind_param(1, 100); $insert->bind_param(2, 'J%'); $insert->bind_param(3, 2); $insert->execute; my $verify = $db->prepare('SELECT * FROM t2'); $verify->execute; my @row; say "@row" while @row = $verify->fetchrow_array;