Creating a SQL script which inserts data from an already existing table is not as straightforward as one would think. I found a pretty clean and easy solution which I will explain in detail here. I use MySQL but I believe the principles can be applied to most other databases if needed. Consider table A with the following content.

Id Name
1 Peter
2 Jake
3 Paul

I want to create a script inserting all entries where name starts with P. The first step is to create a table containing these entries.

CREATE TABLE b (SELECT FROM a WHERE name LIKE 'P%');

Now the data can be exported using mysqldump.

> mysqldump -p -u <username> <database> b > insert-script.sql

The created script contains statements which will drop and create the table (among other things). Normally I am only interested in the part where the insert statements are so open the created script file and remove everything except the INSERT INTO statement. Also remember to rename the name of the table where the data is to be inserted to the correct table name (table A in my case). The final script file should look something like this.

INSERT INTO a VALUES (1, 'Peter'),('3', 'Paul');

Finally you should drop the temporary table you created.