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Using SELECT INTO and INSERT to insert SQL rows Part one of a four-part series of blogs
There are various ways to insert data into new or existing tables in T-SQL - this blog gives examples of each. Inserting Data into Tables using SQL (this blog) Inserting Single Records into a Table Inserting Multiple Rows of Data into a Table SELECT INTO - Making a New Table from Existing Rows This blog is part of a full online tutorial in SQL. Please have a look too at our introductory and advanced SQL training courses for businesses like yours.

Using SELECT INTO and INSERT to insert SQL rows

Part one of a four-part series of blogs

There are various ways to insert data into new or existing tables in T-SQL - this blog gives examples of each.

Inserting Data into Tables using SQL (this blog)
Inserting Single Records into a Table
Inserting Multiple Rows of Data into a Table
SELECT INTO - Making a New Table from Existing Rows

This blog is part of a full online tutorial in SQL. Please have a look too at our introductory and advanced SQL training courses for businesses like yours.

Posted by Andy Brown on 12 October 2012

Inserting Data into Tables using SQL

A previous blog showed how to create tables using SQL - this one shows how to populate them with data.

When I was first learning SQL, these were some of the commands that I found the hardest to remember. The problem is that there are 3 ways to do this, and each does a different thing. The 3 ways are:

Method	What it does
INSERT INTO ... VALUES	Inserts a single record into a table.
INSERT INTO ... SELECT	Adds a set of rows into a table.
SELECT ... INTO	Creates a new tables from a set of rows.

The last two methods use similar syntax, and are particularly easy to confuse.

Aficionados (aficionadi?) of Access should note that the above methods correspond to append and make-table queries.

This blog will consider each of the 3 methods shown above in turn!

Parts of this blog
Inserting Data into Tables using SQL (this blog) Inserting Single Records into a Table Inserting Multiple Rows of Data into a Table SELECT INTO - Making a New Table from Existing Rows

Some other pages relevant to the above blogs include:

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