|=--------------------------------------------------=| _________________ .____ ___________________ / _____/\_____ \ | | \_ _____/\______ \ \_____ \ / / \ \| | | __)_ | | \ / \/ \_/. \ |___ | \ | ` \ /_______ /\_____\ \_/_______ \/_______ //_______ / \/ \__> \/ \/ \/ |=--------------------------------------------------=| . |03.03 - Rows inserting . |=--------------------------------------------------=| In last chapter we created table. It has 3 columns: user_key, user_name and user_password. Let's say we would like to populate the table with some data. To add rows into the table we would use clause: INSERT INTO ... We have 3 users. All the users have the same password. So we would use 3 commands to do so: insert into users (user_name, user_password) values ('user1','pass'); insert into users (user_name, user_password) values ('user2','pass'); insert into users (user_name, user_password) values ('user3','pass'); In some cases we know what rows we want to insert and we don't want to waste computer and network resources to run multiple commands. In that case it's possible to insert all the known rows at once. This can be achieved by: insert into users (user_name, user_password) values ('user1','pass'), ('user2','pass'), ('user3','pass') ; In either case table users now contains 3 rows. It has to be said that the table users had 3 columns. But we specified only 2 columns for the data inserting. The reason is we have user_key specified as autoincrement and if it's not specified in the insert clause it does auto populate itself when the column is ommited while inserting data into the table. Inserting data is a Data Manipulation Language (DML). Normally if the database is not in the autocommit mode we would have to issue COMMIT command after each DML statement. Previous chapter was given to data creating. CREATE TABLE is Data Definition Language. When using DDL statements there is no need to COMMIT data. It changes the structure of current database and no COMMIT is needed. If we would like to add 4th row and provide the INSERT statement without the columns specification we would have to explicitly name all the 3 columns like this: insert into users values (4,'user4','pass'); In next chapter we will try to query prepared data. |=--------------------------------------------------=| |=--------------------------------------------------=|