Comments on: Multiple SQL inserts: Oracle, Mysql, Mssql

By: JAYESH TALSANIYA

JAYESH TALSANIYA — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:00:35 +0000

in mssql u cannot use parentheses in select statement. use as below:

INSERT INTO [TABLE] (column1,column2)
select ‘Value1′,’Fernando’
UNION ALL
select ‘Value2′,’Carlos’
UNION ALL
select ‘Value3′,’Vincent’

JD — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:01:01 +0000

I found with MSSQL, I couldn’t use parentheses in my select statements for insert. So, from your example, I had to do:

select ‘value1′,’Fernando’
union all
select ‘value2′,’Carlos’
etc.

Thanks for the reference though!

Anon — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:27:44 +0000

Thanks for that – really helped save my pages from timing out