Re: Insert without telling column names

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 Roland.Skoldblom_at_ica.se wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> How can I create an insert statement without telling all the names of the columns?
> Give an example, please.
>
> Roland Sköldblom
>

Roland,

You can omit column names only if you are inserting into all columns of the table, in the same order that they appear in the data dictionary.

e.g.

create table mytab ( col1 number, col2 date, col3 number);

valid: insert into mytab values(1, sysdate, 2);

invalid: insert into mytab values( 1, sysdate );

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00947: not enough values

invalid: insert into mytab values( 1,2,sysdate);

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes

Jared

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