SELECT INTO and “Undeclared variable” error

Question

When I try to execute following query:

SELECT id_subscriber
  INTO newsletter_to_send
  FROM subscribers 

I get an error:

Answer 1

MySQL does not support SELECT INTO [table]. It only supports SELECT INTO [variable] and can only do this one variable at a time.

What you can do, however is use the CREATE TABLE syntax with a SELECT like so:

CREATE TABLE bar ([column list]) SELECT * FROM foo;