MySQL insert into Statement Exercises: Insert one row into the table countries against the column country_id and country_name

MySQL insert into Statement: Exercise-2 with Solution

2. Write a SQL statement to insert one row into the table countries against the column country_id and country_name.

Here in the following is the structure of the table countries.

+--------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field        | Type          | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| COUNTRY_ID   | varchar(2)    | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| COUNTRY_NAME | varchar(40)   | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| REGION_ID    | decimal(10,0) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
+--------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+	

Sample Solution:

INSERT INTO countries (country_id,country_name) VALUES('C1','India');

Let execute the above code in MySQL 5.6 command prompt.

Here is the structure of the table:

mysql> SELECT * FROM countries;
+------------+--------------+-----------+
| COUNTRY_ID | COUNTRY_NAME | REGION_ID |
+------------+--------------+-----------+
| C1         | India        |      NULL |
+------------+--------------+-----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

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