Talk:Insert (SQL)

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Does anybody know anything about the FIELDS keyword? This actually works in oracle: insert into mytable FIELDS (x,y,z) values(1,2,3); I've been using SQL for 20 years and have never seen it before! I would bet this keyword was used in an early version of Oracle and never taken out. It's certainly not documented nor standard.

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.79.87.141 (talk) 18:09, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

I want to create a new table that have the same structure of an existing table. I don't want the records to be inserted in new table. I want only the structure of existing table.

SQL:2003 says: CREATE TABLE new_table_name [(column_names)] AS <subquery> WITH [NO] DATA. DB2 uses CREATE TABLE new_table_name LIKE old_table_name; both is irrelevant to the INSERT statement, however. --Stolze 10:56, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Merge

Recommend merging UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE, MERGE and SELECT statements into DML article and redirecting these statements there. Comments? SqlPac 05:16, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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MS SQL INSERT

The article claims you have to do something like this for "MS SQL":

INSERT INTO TableName SELECT "somthing", 23

Is MS SQL something different from T-SQL used by SQL Server 2005/2008, because I know you can do this on SQL Server 2005:

INSERT INTO TableName VALUES ('somthing', 23)

MS SQL Multi-Insert

One can also do multi-inserts using a more friendly syntax

INSERT INTO phone_book VALUES ('John Doe', '555-1212'), ('Peter Doe', '555-2323');

Why is a union construction given as the MS SQL example? Xorlev (talk) 00:45, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

mysql INSERT with SET

as far as i know there is another Syntax for INSERT in MySQL it is like

INSERT INTO table_name SET column_1=value_1, column_2=value_2[, column_n=value_n]

please correct me if i am wrong o.O

Karill Endusa (talk) 13:49, 10 June 2010 (UTC)