Inserts a single record into students table. In the

VALUES

clause we list the values in the same order as the columns are defined in the first clause

INSERT INTO `students` (
    `id`, 
    `first_name`, 
    `last_name`, 
    `points`, 
    `mail`, 
    `santa_id`
) 
VALUES (
    NULL, 
    'დავით', 
    'ბერიძე', 
    '54', 
    'david@gmail.com', 
    '10'
);

Inserts several rows with one INSERT statement

INSERT INTO `students` (
    `id`, 
    `first_name`, 
    `last_name`, 
    `points`, 
    `mail`, 
    `santa_id`
) 
VALUES 
	(NULL, 'დავით', 'ბერიძე', '54', 'david@gmail.com', '10'),
	(NULL, 'გელა', 'თავაძე', '54', 'david@gmail.com', '10'),
	(NULL, 'თამარ', 'დავითაშვილი', '54', 'david@gmail.com', '10')
;

We can exclude nullable fields and pass only the necessary fields

INSERT INTO `students` (
    `first_name`, 
    `last_name`, 
    `points`
) 
VALUES (
    'დავით', 
    'ბერიძე', 
    '54'
)

INSERT & SELECT statement

INSERT INTO `students` (`first_name`, `last_name`, `points`) 
SELECT first_name, last_name, points * 1.2 FROM students WHERE id = 3

We can use

sub-query

in INSERT statement. Before inserting the record,

sub-query

gets

gender_id

based on the provided gender name

INSERT INTO students (
    first_name, 
    last_name, 
    points,
    gender_id
) 
VALUES (
    'ილია', 
    'დავითაშვილი', 
    '84',
    (SELECT id FROM genders WHERE name = 'Male')
)

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