September 2007
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
13h 23m
English
SQL has two main versions of the INSERT statement. In the first version, you include the VALUES keyword and list the values that you want your database system to add as a single new row in a specified target table. The second version lets you use a SELECT clause to fetch data from a table to insert into your target table. Let’s take a look at the VALUES version first.
Although SQL is primarily designed to work with sets of data, much of the time you’ll use INSERT to add a single row of data to one of your tables. The simplest way to add one row to a table is to use the INSERT statement with the VALUES clause. Figure 16-1 shows the diagram for this statement.