Question

If i have my SQL create statement as follows;

CREATE TABLE TABLENAME12
(
  TAB_ID INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  NAME_FIRST NVARCHAR(200),
  TYPE NVARCHAR(200),
  PRIMARY KEY( TAB_ID )
);

and if i want to Insert values to it, should i enter TAB_ID too ? Since it’s auto increment.

When i INSERT INTO SWM_SALES_FEEDBACK VALUES (1,'Jerry','ty'); It gets inserted if i don’t specify the primary key INSERT INTO SWM_SALES_FEEDBACK VALUES ('Jerry','ty'); i get the following error :

ERROR 1136 (21S01): Column count doesn't match value count at row 1

1.) What is the point of having AUTO_INCREMENT if it doesn’t get auto incremented.
2.) If i have a field called:

BIRTH_TIME DATE,

How should i INSERT value to this field since it’s DATE type

Answer 1

Point 1

If you don’t want to store all fields in DB then you have to specify those column names before VALUES clause as shown below.

INSERT INTO myTable (field2,field3) VALUES ('field2','field3')

In your case, statement should be

INSERT INTO SWM_SALES_FEEDBACK (name_first, type) VALUES ('Jerry','ty')
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Point 2

If you have field as DATETIME, TIMESTAMP as datatype, you can enter date as

INSERT INTO myTable (myDate) VALUES ('2012-12-28 12:12:12')

Format is yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

If you want to store the current time of the system in DB, you could use NOW() as shown below.

INSERT INTO myTable (myDate) VALUES (NOW())