Re: Multiple Row Insert in SQL?

["Michael Naughton" <mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for clearing that up, Vern! At least now I know why none of the
examples and documentation I found seemed to work . . . .

Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>Unfortunately that syntax is not available at V5R2 in the iSeries version 
>of DB2 - it is in all the others. Maybe we can hope. Because a single 
>statement with multiple sets of values runs better than multiple 
>statements, each with 1 set of values. This is an optimization 
>recommendation in the other flavors of DB2.
>
>So, for the moment anyway, out of luck.
>
>Vern
>
>At 05:24 PM 11/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>>I thought the format was something like
>>
>>INSERT INTO mytable (field1, field2, field3) values
>('blah1','blah2','blah3'),
>>('blah2a','blah2b','blah2c'), ('blahagain','andagain','andagain');


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