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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
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Row Constructors

SQL Server 2008 provides a new method to insert data to SQL Server tables, referred to as row constructors. Row constructors are a feature that can be used to simplify data insertion, allowing multiple rows of data to be specified in a single DML statement. Row constructors are used to specify a set of row value expressions to be constructed into a data row.

Row constructors can be specified in the VALUES clause of the INSERT statement, in the USING clause of the MERGE statement, and in the definition of a derived table in the FROM clause. The general syntax of the row constructor is as follows:

VALUES ( { expression | DEFAULT | NULL |} [ ,...n ] ) [ ,...n ]

Each column of data defined in the VALUES clause is separated from ...

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