SQL: Load (Insert) data into a table

Here are the steps to add data to existing table:

Let’s use the employee table created on the create table page: Create_table

To insert some data into this table, first you need to know what the data types of each of the columns in the table are. In this example I am using my MySQL. An easy way to see column data types is to Right Click on Table name> Send to SQL Editor > Create Statement

The results will appear in the query window. In this table we can see the columns are a integer (INT), string (varchar), DOB (date)

The syntax for inserting data into the table is as follows

insert into <table name> (column1, column2,...)
values (value1, value2,...)

In the example below, we are loading 3 rows in, separating each row by a comma:

If we run this, we can then check on the results with a Select statement