One of the very cool new feature which SQL Server 2008 gives us is an change to the INSERT statement. Now you can specify multiple rows to insert into a table from a single insert command.
The syntax is:
CREATE TABLE TableName (Column1 INT, Column2 VARCHAR(10))
INSERT INTO TableName
(Column1, Column2)
VALUES
(1, 'test1'), (2, 'test2'), (3, 'test4')
I see this as being a very handy especially when doing an initial data load into a table as you can now load lots of data without having to run a lot of seperate insert statements.
Denny
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Hi Denny and all.
It is good to hear, that this option is also available in SQL server 2008.
I am not expert, but I think this syntax will cause overhead if you insert many records. Maybe is better choice:
INSERT INTO …
(col1, col2,…)
SELECT …
FROM …
UNION ALL
SELECT …
FROM …