DML: INSERT Statements

Inserting Values

Suppose dbo.Songs is empty. Let’s populate it with some songs.

INSERT INTO dbo.Song
VALUES
	('The Tide Is High', 231)
,	('Red Red Wine',182)
,	('Do You Really Want To Hurt Me',263)
,	('Relax',238)
,	('Gold',231);

But, manually entering data into our table in this fashion is really slow and tedious!

Suppose I’ve got another table, dbo.moreSong which has… more songs (and conveniently shares the same schema).

INSERT INTO dbo.Song
SELECT
	SongName
,	Duration
FROM	dbo.moreSong;

This essentially copies everything from dbo.moreSong into dbo.Song.