Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes

Lesson 18. Inserting Data

In this lesson, you will learn how to insert data into tables using the SQL INSERT statement.

Understanding Data Insertion

SELECT is undoubtedly the most frequently used SQL statement (which is why the past 14 lessons were dedicated to it). But there are three other frequently used SQL statements you should learn. The first one is INSERT. (You’ll get to the other two in the next lesson.)

As its name suggests, INSERT is used to insert (add) rows to a database table. INSERT can be used in several ways:

• To insert a single complete row

• To insert a single partial row

• To insert multiple rows

• To insert the results of a query

You’ll now look at examples of each of these.

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