In standard-SQL, you can insert multiple rows of data with a single INSERT statement.

Thank you! This was news to me. I've done my due-diligence Googling now, and I see it's true.

But when I look at the OP's code, I can't see any syntactic markers for multiple records. The multirow INSERT ... VALUES statement looks like

INSERT INTO phone_book VALUES ('John Doe', '555-1212'), ('Peter Doe', 
+'555-2323');

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with a pair of parentheses for each record to be inserted.

Thanks also to pc88mxer below for the diligent analysis of the parsing routine, confirming that there should be multiple target tables.

In reply to Re^3: Inserting Multiple Records in DB. by Narveson
in thread Inserting Multiple Records in DB. by Anonymous Monk

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