Modification of a Table’s Contents

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 Scope

 INSERT Statement
 UPDATE Statement
 DELETE Statement

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 INSERT Statement

 The INSERT Statement inserts rows into a table.

It has two different forms:

 Inserting a single row

 Inserting multiple row

Examples:

Inserting a single row

INSERT INTO Project VALUES(‘p1’,’TCS’,200000.00)

Inserting multiple Row

INSERT INTO dalls_dept (dept_no, dept_name)

SELECT dept_no, dept_name
FROM department
WHERE location = ‘Dallas’

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 UPDATE Statement

 The UPDATE Statement modifies values of table rows.

Example:

UPDATE works_on
SET job =‘manager’
WHERE emp_no = 18316

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 DELETE Statement

 The DELETE Statement deletes rows from a table.

Example:

DELETE FROM WORKS_ON

WHERE JOB =‘manager’

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 TRUNCATE Statement

 It removes all rows from the table.

 It is faster than DELETE statement.

 Immediately frees all the space occupied by that table’s data and
indexes.

 DELETE statement removes rows one at a time and logs each

deleted row as a transaction, whereas TRUNCATE TABLE doesn’t.

SYNTAX:

TRUNCATE TABLE [[database,]owner.] table_name

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 Summary

 INSERT Statement
 UPDATE Statement
 DELETE Statement

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