SQL Server

(Lecture 5)
SQL Syntax
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Programing Department
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INSERT INTO ?

SELECT ?

ORDER BY?

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 INSERT INTO
The SQL INSERT INTO Statement is used to add new rows of
data to a table in the database.

Syntax: Or :

INSERT INTO Table_name INSERT INTO Table_name

VALUES (column1, column2,...columnN)
(value1, value2,...valueN) ; VALUES
(value1, value2,...valueN) ;

To show all records were inserted :

SELECT * FROM Table_name ;

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 INSERT INTO

Example:
INSERT INTO CUSTOMERS
VALUES (7 , 'Muffy’ , 24 , 'Indore‘ , 10000.00 );

Example:
INSERT INTO CUSTOMERS (ID,NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY)
VALUES (1, 'Ramesh', 32, 'Ahmedabad', 2000.00 );

INSERT INTO CUSTOMERS (ID,NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY)

VALUES (2, 'Khilan', 25, 'Delhi', 1500.00 );

INSERT INTO CUSTOMERS (ID,NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY)

VALUES (3, 'kaushik', 23, 'Kota', 2000.00 );

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 Note

The strings should be given inside single

quotes ( ‘ ) where as numeric values should
be given without any quote .
 INSERT INTO

Insert exists data’s from a tabale into another.

INSERT INTO first_table_name

Syntax: (column1, column2, ... columnN)
SELECT column1, column2, ...columnN
FROM second_table_name ;
INSERT INTO ORDERS
Example: SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS ;

Note : Copy all data in a table into another table, must be columns have
the same data types, So can be use condition.

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 SELECT

SQL SELECT Statement is used to fetch the data from a database table.

Syntax 1 : SELECT * FROM table_name ;

To fetch all the fields available in the
table.

Syntax 2 : SELECT column1, column2, …. FROM table_name;

To fetch some specific fields available in the table.

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 SELECT

Example : SELECT * FROM CUSTOMERS ;

Example : SELECT ID, Name, Salary FROM CUSTOMERS ;

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 ORDER BY

The ORDER BY keyword is used to sort the result-set by one or more

columns.

Syntax : SELECT * FROM Tbl_name ORDER BY Col_name;

Example : SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER ORDER BY LastName ;

By default is ascending sort, can be use DESC for descending.

Example : SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER ORDER BY LastName ASC|

DESC ;

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 DISTINCT

The DISTINCT keyword can be used to return only distinct (different)

values.

Syntax :

SELECT DISTINCT Col_name FROM Tbl_name ;

Example :

SELECT DISTINCT FirstName FROM CUSTOMER ;

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