Learn SQL using MySQL in One Day and Learn It Well

Chapter 4: Inserting, Updating and Deleting Data

 

In the previous two chapters, we learned to create, alter and drop our databases and tables. In this chapter, we’ll learn to insert data into our tables. We’ll also learn to update and delete data.

 

Inserting Data

 

To insert data into MySQL, we use the following syntax:

 

INSERT INTO table_name (column1, column2, column3, …)

VALUES (value1, value2, value3, …);

 

 

Suppose we want to insert the information above into the employees table, we write

 

INSERT INTO employees (em_name, gender, contact_number, salary, years_in_company) VALUES

('James Lee', 'M', '516-514-6568', 3500, 11),

('Peter Pasternak', ...