Import & Export Data – Part 1

There are not many real life databases that do not import data from external sources or do not export data for delivery to external targets. I am going to devote a series of talks on different ways to perform these functions. The INSERT statement is the easiest way to load small sets of static information into a database. We will be working again with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) hypothetical database. The first example loads the rank table with a data. We can see the auto-increment surrogote key is…