Please help me in my sql query

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Hello Sir,
Please help me in my query kindly tell me the meaning

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INSERT INTO Videos
OUTPUT inserted.*
VALUES(N'War of the Roses (The)', N'Dany de Vito', 0, N'R', 2001),
      (N'Memoirs of a Geisha', N'Rob Marshall', 1, N'PG-13', 2006),
      (N'Last Castle (The)', N'Rod Lurie', 1, N'', 2001),
      (N'Sneakers', N'Phil Alden Robinson', 1, N'PG-13', 2003);

What is the meaning of OUTPUT inserted.* ?

Thanks in Advance

Posted 7-Jan-12 1:18am

Prashant Srivastava LKO

Updated 7-Jan-12 1:21am

Amir Mahfoozi

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Amir Mahfoozi · Answer 1 · 2012-01-07T01:26:00

Solution 1

Read this page, it described it in details :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177564.aspx[^]

OUTPUT will return affected rows by the last command which is an insert command here.

Here is another example :
http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/insert-into-two-tables-using-t-sql-output-clause.aspx[^]

Hope it helps.

Posted 7-Jan-12 1:26am

Amir Mahfoozi

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Prashant Srivastava LKO 9-Jan-12 5:32am

Thanks sir for the help, nice link

Amir Mahfoozi 9-Jan-12 5:34am

You're welcome.