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January 16, 2012 at 9:58 pm

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January 16, 2012 at 9:59 pm

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Good one Steve, Thank you.

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Straight up question.

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cengland0 SSCertifiable Points: 6102 More actions · Answer 3

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.

Britt Cluff SSCertifiable Points: 5083 More actions · Answer 4

Good straight forward question. Thanks Steve.

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Hugo Kornelis SSC Guru Points: 64780 More actions · Answer 5

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');

EDIT: Removed the color tag after a few failed attempts to use it - I hope just using bold text emphasises the changes sufficiently.

EDIT: Added back the color tag after Paul told me what I did wrong.

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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.
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');
EDIT: Removed the color tag after a few failed attempts to use it - I hope just using bold text emphasises the changes sufficiently.

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? 😀

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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.
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.

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.

Andre Guerreiro SSCertifiable Points: 7319 More actions · Answer 8

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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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 😉

EL Jerry SSCertifiable Points: 7061 More actions · Answer 10

I agree with cengland0 about portability. You never know where your code will end up running, even if it is a secured ("closed"?) environment. As a former Tech Support Analyst, we got several headaches when new versions of SQL Server were released because of code deprecation and incompatibility, so I wave the "As Standard As Possible" flag.

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January 17, 2012 at 10:41 am

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tks Steve.

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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 😉

Not me, but about those column names ... certainly it's not good design practice to use such generic column names. :hehe:

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Hugo Kornelis (1/17/2012)
EDIT: Removed the color tag after a few failed attempts to use it - I hope just using bold text emphasises the changes sufficiently.

Like this...? (the stupid trick here is to put double-quotes around the hex colour value *and* the leading # sign. Awesome.)

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SQL Kiwi (1/17/2012)
Like this...? (the stupid trick here is to put double-quotes around the hex colour value *and* the leading # sign. Awesome.)

Thanks, Paul. I missed the double-quotes.

I have now edited my post to show the missing bits in red.

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