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dolphinately

Reputation: 69

Insert values into SQLite Database

Is there an easier way I can insert data in a table in SQLite? What I need is to insert State_ID and State_Name in Table tblState. Since there are a lot of State in US, is there another way I can use instead of this:

String ROW1 = "INSERT INTO tblState VALUES (1,'Alabama')";
String ROW2 = "INSERT INTO tblState VALUES (2,'Alaska')";
String ROW3 = "INSERT INTO tblState VALUES (3,'California')";
db.execSQL(ROW1);
db.execSQL(ROW2);
db.execSQL(ROW3);

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1753

Answers (3)

Subburaj
Subburaj

Reputation: 5192

Try for this.. 

String state[] = { "state1" , "state2",.............};
    int id=1;
    for(int i=0;i<state.length;i++)
    {
    db.execSQL("INSERT INTO tblState VALUES (id,state[i])");
    id++;
    }

Upvotes: 1

eternay
eternay

Reputation: 3814

You should use ContentValues for each of the rows you want to insert:

ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put('State_ID', 1);
values.put('State_Name', "Alabama");

and then use db.insert("tblState", null, values) to insert the row. You can write a method to construct your ContentValues:

public ContentValues method(int id, String name) {
    ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
    values.put('State_ID', id);
    values.put('State_Name', name);
}

Your code will be:

db.insert("tblState", null, method(1, "Alabama"));
db.insert("tblState", null, method(2, "Alaska"));
db.insert("tblState", null, method(3, "California"));

Or just loop through all the states...

Upvotes: 0

Mathew Thompson
Mathew Thompson

Reputation: 56429

You can do the following:

String ALLROWS = "INSERT INTO tblState"
    + "SELECT 1 AS 'State_ID', 'Alabama' AS 'State_Name'"
    + "UNION SELECT 2 AS 'State_ID', 'Alaska' AS 'State_Name'"
    + "UNION SELECT 3 AS 'State_ID', 'California' AS 'State_Name'";

db.execSQL(ALLROWS);

Upvotes: 0

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