On Thu, 13 Jun 2024, David G. Johnston wrote:
Because you specified company_name in the column listing for the things you are inserting values for. So in column position 2 you must have a value than can be inserted into the company_name column. It is utterly immaterial how you specified the value for column position 1.
We can't help you understand if you don't show a complete working example and ask a question in relation to that example. I suggest you start from scratch, this time using scripts, so that your work is recorded and replayable.
David, INSERT into companies (company_nbr,company_name,industry,status) VALUES (DEFAULT,'A new company name', 'Manufacturing',DEFAULT); I always write scrips for SQL, R, GRASS, Python, bash. Above is a redacted version of the single name I tried adding to the companies table. Yesterday, before learning to use DEFAULT for the company_nbr PK I entered all rows using company_nbr 2342-2391. This morning, after running the single-line INSERT command company numbers from 2341-2392 all had 'A new company name' as the company_name. HTH, Rich
