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Development Tools Database Foundations Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL Inserting Data

Posted by abdi ali
abdi ali
10,920 Points

In the "actors" table INSERT a new actor with the name "Michael J. Fox".

help

Kevin Wilbourn
Kevin Wilbourn
6,333 Points
Kevin Wilbourn
Kevin Wilbourn
6,333 Points

Where are you having trouble? This is a pretty simple INSERT query - but it is case sensitive. Every INSERT needs to specify a table name, in this case, "actors" so we have:

INSERT INTO actors

It also needs a set of VALUES. The instructions provided one value for one field - that'll look like this:

INSERT INTO actors VALUES ("Michael J. Fox")

name is inferred - the "actors" table only has one column, but you could declare it if you needed to:

INSERT INTO actors (name) VALUES ("Michael J. Fox")