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

This should do the job for you:

INSERT INTO table_name (username, password)
VALUES('username_u','password_p');

The autoincrement value will be automatically added by SQL.

Answer 2

So just don't use it...do it like this..

And be sure you use single quotes for inserting strings

INSERT INTO table_name (username, password)
VALUES ('Mike', 'Mike');

As you said your field is auto incremented, SQL will automatically increment the value of the id field by 1

Answer 3

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')

Answer 4

If you want to manually insert a value to an auto incremented column you can use the IDENTITY_INSERT of sql. for example

SET IDENTITY_INSERT MyTable ON
insert into MyTable(id, name) values (1,'asdf');
insert into MyTable(id, name) values (3,'htgfds');
insert into MyTable(id, name) values (123,'dsfg');
SET IDENTITY_INSERT MyTable OFF

you can read more here IDENTITY_INSERT