Introducing the MySQL INSERT statement


 

Entry in Robert Sheldon’s series on Learning MySQL. The series so far:

Getting started with MySQL Working with MySQL tables Working with MySQL views Working with MySQL stored procedures Working with MySQL stored functions Introducing the MySQL SELECT statement

In the previous article in this series, I introduced you to the SELECT statement, one of several SQL statements that fall into the category of data manipulation language (DML), a subset of statements used to query and modify data. Another DML statement is the INSERT statement, which lets you add data to MySQL tables, both permanent and temporary. This