Insert multiple records in oracle

Question

I am using oracle sql developer to insert rows in my database.

While this request is working :

INSERT INTO TABLE ( USERID, USERNAME) VALUES (1,\"ok1\         


        

Answer 1

You could use INSERT ALL statement. For example:

INSERT ALL
  INTO mytable (column1, column2, column3) VALUES ('val1.1', 'val1.2', 'val1.3')
  INTO mytable (column1, column2, column3) VALUES ('val2.1', 'val2.2', 'val2.3')
  INTO mytable (column1, column2, column3) VALUES ('val3.1', 'val3.2', 'val3.3')
SELECT * FROM dual;

Answer 2

See this recent post for some other ways to enter test data as well: Insert same data multiple times

Answer 3

Oracle does not support multi-row inserts. You need to write one insert per row:

INSERT INTO TABLE ( USERID, USERNAME) VALUES (1,'ok1');
INSERT INTO TABLE ( USERID, USERNAME) VALUES (2,'ok2');

Additionally: string literals need to be enclosed in single quotes in SQL. Double quotes are for identifiers. "ok1" is a column name, 'ok1' is a string constant.