Insert manually into a table by SQL statement, but key is autoincremented

Question

Let\'s say I have a table of users and the id column is the primary key and auto incremented.

I want to just try and add user manually by this statemen

Answer 1

If id is a auto incremented value just leave that column out of the insert and it will fill in with the auto incremented value. For example from BOL http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa933196(v=SQL.80).aspx

CREATE TABLE new_employees
(
 id_num int IDENTITY(1,1),
 fname varchar (20),
 minit char(1),
 lname varchar(30)
)

INSERT new_employees
   (fname, minit, lname)
VALUES
   ('Karin', 'F', 'Josephs')

INSERT new_employees
   (fname, minit, lname)
VALUES
   ('Pirkko', 'O', 'Koskitalo')