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Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Posted Monday, January 16, 2012 9:58 PM

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Posted Monday, January 16, 2012 9:59 PM

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Good one Steve, Thank you.

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Posted Monday, January 16, 2012 10:27 PM

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Straight up question.

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Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:03 AM

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I love that insert method and MySQL has had it available for so long. Unfortunately, it took Microsoft ages to add that feature. Too bad it wasn't available in the earlier versions of SQL Server 2000 and 2005. Because of that, I will not use that insert method because (as I've stated in other threads) I like to make my SQL portable. If I built it and it works on 2008 only, I couldn't put the same code on a 2005 server.

Some of you might say that I shouldn't worry about the portability and just program for what I have available (for performance reasons) but I've had to change servers so many times I already have experience with wasting time reprogramming incompatible code. I don't want to subject myself to that in the future. My minimum requirement is SQL Server 2005. If it doesn't work in 2000, I don't care because I don't know of any servers in my business still on that platform.

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Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2012 5:27 AM

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Good straight forward question. Thanks Steve.

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Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:00 AM

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A good question, and it's hard to see how anbody could contest the correct answer.

Although in the spirit of nitpicking, I could argue that the format one should use would include the column list in the INSERT statement. And the semicolon statement terminator, that in a future version will no longer be optional.

INSERT dbo.mytable (Column1, Column2) VALUES ('Test', 'Test2'), ('Test3', 'Test4'), ('test5', 'test6');

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Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2012 7:24 AM

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Hugo Kornelis (1/17/2012)

Actually if you wanted to nitpick you missed it. Including column names is best practice which doesn't mean you should use it. The correct answer is also the ONLY answer with valid syntax. Maybe your nitpicking can be the wording. Which one of these has the correct syntax? BigGrin

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Hugo Kornelis (1/17/2012)

Picky, picky.

Yes, I should have the semi-colon in there. I do like to show code the way I'd want it written in production, and the semi-colon is one I'm struggling to remember as I write since it's an old habit to forgo it.

The columns, it's a good idea, and I've gotten slightly lazy over the years with this.

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Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:09 AM

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Easy and straight-forward question.
Thank you.

And when I need to use something similar in MSSQL 2000 or 2005 I write this:

INSERT INTO dbo.Table(Column1, Column2)
SELECT 'Value1', 'Value2' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Value3', 'Value4' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Value5', 'Value6';

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Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:25 AM

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Hugo Kornelis (1/17/2012)

A good question, and it's hard to see how anbody could contest the correct answer.

How long before someone complains that the correct answer is an error message saying there's no such table as my table Wink

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