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# Insert Commands

Let's assume that we want to insert a new movie into our database. We do this by saying we want to `INSERT INTO Movie`, we use the keyword values and we simply list the values we want to insert.

Like so:

```sql
INSERT INTO Movie VALUES(109, 'Cinderella', 1950);
```

In this query we are inserting values for the attributes of the `Movie` table. We included a `mID`, `Title`, and `Year`. We did not include a `Director`, so thus there will be a `null` value in the database for that attribute of Cinderella.

Now let's do a little more complicated insert command. Now that we have *Cinderella* in our database, lets add a few users into the `Review` table and have them rate the new movie. We're going to start by inserting two new users into the `User` table.

Like so:

```sql
INSERT INTO Review VALUES(209, 'Jonathan Murleau')
INSERT INTO Review VALUES(210, 'Barabara Vance');
```

We now have two new users but they have not yet rated on any movies, so let's have them rate on our new movie *Cinderella*.

We now want to return all users where there `mID` does not appear in the `Review` table. Like so:

```sql
SELECT *
FROM User
WHERE uID NOT IN (SELECT uID FROM Review);
```

Our query would be the result of the two users that we just inserted: Jonathan and Barbara. Well now that we have singled out the users who have not rated yet, lets insert those users into the `Review` table with the correct schema.

Like this:

```sql
INSERT INTO Review
SELECT uID, 109, 3, null
FROM User
WHERE uID NOT IN (SELECT uID FROM Review);
```

This query is saying to select all users who do not already appear in the `Review` table. We're going to take these users and we're going to select their `uID`, then we are going to assign them the correct values for all of the `Review` attributes. As a reminder, the `Review` table has the attributes: `uID`, `mID`, `Rating`, and `ratingDate`. So in our query we are selecting their `uID`, then having the rate the `mID` of 109 (which is the movie *Cinderella*), they both are going to rate the movie with a 3, and we inserted a `null` value for the `ratingDate`. Lastly, we are going to take this end result, and `INSERT INTO` the `Review` table.