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Recent content by joffy
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Learning and need some syntax help
Your values only need to be in quotes '......' if they're not ints (i seeem to remember). Its a bit tricky from what you've written. SQL is standard. Oracle have provided extra functionality, but you're not interested in this. This should work in any circumstance "INSERT INTO tablename... -
First Name, Middle Initial...
Try using some inbuilt functions like instr, length etc. These appear in MYSQL and Oracle certainly, and may be available in other flavours
