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Spencer O'Neill
Spencer O'Neill
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Posted by Spencer O'Neill
Spencer O'Neill
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SQL - VALUES vs SET

For the first challenge in Inserting, Updating and Deleting, we are asked to insert "Aliens" and 1986 into a new row in movies.

I initially was trying to use INSERT INTO movies SET title="Aliens", year = 1986 but was puzzled that this was incorrect.

I then went through the lines of code from following the video, and was reminded of the keyword VALUES. My question, and source of confusion, is why these two things aren't equivalent.

Thanks!

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Michael Nguyen
Michael Nguyen
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Michael Nguyen
Michael Nguyen
6,138 Points

Here is the full explanation for your confusion (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/861722/mysql-insert-into-table-values-vs-insert-into-table-set)

In short, use 

INSERT INTO table (a, b, c) VALUES (1,2,3)

because it is SQL standard.