Re: Insert without telling column names

At 08:36 AM 3/20/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Roland,
>
>You can't. There are a number of ways to really cut down on the code
>required to do an insert, but if you think about it, how will Oracle
>know where the data is supposed to go if you don't give it the column
>name(at some point)?

Of course you can. The only caveat is Oracle will assume you are filling all the columns in order, therefore you must provide a value for every column, ie
For Table T1(firstname, lastname, telephone, fax, email)

insert into T1 values('John','Smith','4849910','','mymail_at_company.com')

Note the '' in place of a fax number. I could also have used null.

I never use this method in applications or procedures, of course, because then if you change the table definition it no longer works, but for testing stuff, or something I'm only going to run once it's a decent shortcut.

>If you're using 8i, there is a direct load insert, but as far as I'm
>aware, this will work only for a select * from another table.
>
>Dynamic SQL works pretty well for this kind of stuff. What are you
>trying to do?
>
>Regards,
>
>David A. Barbour
>Oracle DBA
>Formerly with the now defunct and bankrupt ConnectSouth
>
>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
> >
> > --

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