Best way to do multi-row insert in Oracle?

Question

I\'m looking for a good way to perform multi-row inserts into an Oracle 9 database. The following works in MySQL but doesn\'t seem to be supported in Oracle.

Answer 1

This works in Oracle:

insert into pager (PAG_ID,PAG_PARENT,PAG_NAME,PAG_ACTIVE)
          select 8000,0,'Multi 8000',1 from dual
union all select 8001,0,'Multi 8001',1 from dual

The thing to remember here is to use the from dual statement.

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