Beginning SQL

Appendix C
Category Table
The following SQL inserts data into the Category table, and it runs on all 5 of the database systems:
INSERT INTO Category (CategoryId, Category) VALUES (1, ‘Thriller’);
INSERT INTO Category (CategoryId, Category) VALUES (2, ‘Romance’);
INSERT INTO Category (CategoryId, Category) VALUES (3, ‘Horror’);
INSERT INTO Category (CategoryId, Category) VALUES (4, ‘War’);
INSERT INTO Category (CategoryId, Category) VALUES (5, ‘Sci-fi’);
INSERT INTO Category (CategoryId, Category) VALUES (6, ‘Historical’);
You can find this text in the file CategoryTable_Data.txt.
MemberDetails Table
The default installation of Oracle usually requires dates in the following format:
day_of_the_month month_name year
For example, you would type January 23, 2004, as 23 Jan 2004.
The other four database systems are happy with the following format:
year-month-day_of_the_month
You would type January 23, 2004, as 2004-01-23.
Since there are two different date formats, this section is divided into two subsections: non-Oracle
databases and Oracle databases.
Database Systems Other Than Oracle
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If you’ve downloaded the code, the file named MemberDetailsTable_Data.txt contains the information
that populates the MemberDetails table in SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, and IBM DB2.
INSERT INTO MemberDetails
(
MemberId,
FirstName,
LastName,
DateOfBirth,
Street,
City,
State,
ZipCode,
Email,
DateOfJoining
)
VALUES