Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2008 – Insert Multiple Records Using One Insert Statement – Use of Row Constructor

By: Thomas Ringsma

Thomas Ringsma — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:29:58 +0000

I have a table CPY10100 with a missing column. So I made a temp file of the table and dropped/created a new table CPY10100 with the correct columns.
So how do I use the INSERT INTO SELECT command in SQL2008 to bring the data from the CPY10100temp to the CPY10100?

I’ve tried:

INSERT INTO CPY10100
(
list of all columns, including new column
)
SELECT
(
list of all columns,including new column
)
FROM CPY10100temp

but get an error on the newly created column.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Thomas

By: jinu

jinu — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:45:46 +0000

This will work from version 2008 onwards only

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:27:28 +0000

What did you mean by wrong? Did you get any error?

By: They-bid Curve-in

They-bid Curve-in — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:15:37 +0000

hi,
how to insert another rows in table that contain primary and foreign key?
because when i insert some rows, i am getting wrong.. i need your answer please…

thanks

By: Raghav

Raghav — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:44:23 +0000

Thanks….

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:07:28 +0000

Post the full code you used so that it is easy to identify the error

By: satheesh

satheesh — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:07:33 +0000

any update????

By: satheesh

satheesh — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:48:02 +0000

i have using the below version

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:02:53 +0000

This will work from version 2008 onwards only

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:36:53 +0000

What was the error? Also post the full code you have used

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:35:37 +0000

Do you want to know the last id inserted? Use scope_identity() function

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:34:34 +0000

Post the full code you have used. Also which version of SQL Server are you using?

By: satheesh

satheesh — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:55:43 +0000

the select query is not execute in my SQL server 2008..while running the select query i m getting the error msg as “An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: Field token out of range.”

anybody pls help on this…

By: jan

jan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:40:32 +0000

Hi all,

I was just wondering about the difference between SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 in terms of sql syntax? And also regarding the installation procedure. Are there any pre-requisites required? (Eg. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 ?) and how about the silent installation of SQL Server 2008 R2? Are there any?

Hoping for answers. Thanks!

By: jitendra

jitendra — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:44:12 +0000

Thanks alot for your query

By: Renish

Renish — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:58:44 +0000

Does anybody know how can we retrive the ids of the inserted rows in this case?

By: Allan Gaunt

Allan Gaunt — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:58:00 +0000

Just to note as well, there is a 1000 entry limit as well so you can’t do this for more than 1000 entries (found out after trying to insert 4000).

By: chittaranjan

chittaranjan — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:15:34 +0000

INSERT INTO MyTable (FirstCol, SecondCol)
VALUES (‘First’,1);

except this remaing above syntax show’s error

By: sreepk

sreepk — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:27:39 +0000

good article….. :)

By: MNIKO

MNIKO — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:16:18 +0000

THANX IT HELP ME ALOT THANX AGAIN

By: Frank Haggar

Frank Haggar — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:54:12 +0000

I have another question for you all….

I have 2 tables, both with IDENTITY colums as the first field.

Table1: address_id, street, city, state zip
Table2: Customer_id, name, address_id

How can insert multiple records to Table1, retrieving the IDs so I can then insert into table 2? I need to do this:

(a) With minimal locking on the tables
(b) Matching existing records and returning the old “address_id”
(c) Get back all of the new “Customer_id” values once I am done.

Please advise.

By: Michelle Poolet

Michelle Poolet — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:07:18 +0000

PinalDave,

Your tech editor from SQL Server Magazine days here…this works if you’re using SQL 2008 Management Studio against a SQL 2005 database. I haven’t needed to use this construct until today, when I was tasked with inserting a bunch of data from a spreadsheet into a table on a SQL Server 2005 database. Working remotely (VPN), I kept running into the issues of SQL Server whining about not being able to find the file (because it wasn’t local, or because it couldn’t resolve the UNC path), and then the security issues (not my database so there wasn’t much I could do about that one!). I realized that I was wasting too much time trying to set up the bulk insert, and thought “can I do the multi-row insert, even tho this is a 2005 database?” Yup, it worked. Thought you’d like to know…
Best,
Michelle Poolet

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:45:24 +0000

Use the code

ALTER DATABASE your_DB_name
SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 100

By: vikram reddy

vikram reddy — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:18:15 +0000

I use SQL Server 2008 R2. I get error when running this query.

INSERT INTO [myTable]
([id],
[col1],
[col2],
[col3])
VALUES (24888,6,548,1020),
(24888,2,548,1020),
(24888,5,548,1020),
(24888,0,548,1020)

ERROR : Incorrect syntax near ‘,’
————————————————
compatibility of the my database is 90.

then what i have to do?

How it will be 100. Is there any way?

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:32:13 +0000

Insert Into Table1 (col1,col2)
select ‘A’, ‘B’ union all
select ‘C’,'D’