Question

I am attempting to insert a row manually into my SQL Server data table. This table has 5 columns, one identity and four data columns. I looked at this post, but when I run the selected answer’s query (after replacing ‘GroupTable’ with my table name of course), my SQL Server 2005 management studio crashes.

I have tried variations of the following statements, but obviously no luck thus far:

INSERT INTO MyTable (id, col1, col2, col3, col4)
VALUES (0, 'Column 1 Value', 'Column 2 Value', 'Column 3 Value', 'Column 4 Value')

INSERT INTO MyTable (col1, col2, col3, col4)
VALUES ('Column 1 Value', 'Column 2 Value', 'Column 3 Value', 'Column 4 Value')

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Usually, omitting the id column would generate a new automatic ID if the column is set so. In your case, you can use

SET IDENTITY_INSERT MyTable ON;

INSERT INTO MyTable (id, col1, col2, col3, col4)
VALUES (4567, 'Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3', 'Value4');

SET IDENTITY_INSERT MyTable OFF;