Question

I’m writing a query that inserts customer data into a MSSQL database. Very basic.

Unfortunately, I ran into a problem when trying to do the following:

INSERT INTO USERS(newid(),'BOB''S SELECT MARKETING')

I made sure to escape my quotes, but the server is still seeing SELECT as a reserved keyword. I don’t want to have to wrap a bunch of reserved words in brackets. Is there a cleaner way of getting my data in the database intact and not mangled by brackets?

I appreciate your help.

Thank you!

Answer 1

You have several choices of syntax here. Using the one in your code sample, you forgot the VALUES keyword. For example:

declare @users table
(
    id uniqueidentifier,
    name varchar(50)
)
insert into @users values (newid(), 'BOB''S SELECT MARKETING')

You can also use the insert into / select statement like below if you are inserting a value into each one of the table’s columns:

declare @users table
(
    id uniqueidentifier,
    name varchar(50)
)
insert into @users 
select newid(), 'BOB''S SELECT MARKETING'

Or you can use the insert into / select statement and specify the columns you are inserting:

declare @users table
(
    id uniqueidentifier,
    name varchar(50)
)
insert into @users (id, name)
select newid(), 'BOB''S SELECT MARKETING'