INSERT values to MySQL - mysql

Question

If i have my SQL create statement as follows;
CREATE TABLE TABLENAME12
(
TAB_ID INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
NAME_FIRST NVARCHAR(200),
TYPE NVARCHAR(200),
PRIMARY KEY( TAB_ID )
);
and if i want to Insert values to it, should i enter TAB_ID too ? Since it's auto increment.
When i INSERT INTO SWM_SALES_FEEDBACK VALUES (1,'Jerry','ty'); It gets inserted if i don't specify the primary key INSERT INTO SWM_SALES_FEEDBACK VALUES ('Jerry','ty'); i get the following error :
ERROR 1136 (21S01): Column count doesn't match value count at row 1
1.) What is the point of having AUTO_INCREMENT if it doesn't get auto incremented.
2.) If i have a field called:
BIRTH_TIME DATE,
How should i INSERT value to this field since it's DATE type

Answer 1

1) You have to respect an order of columns in your table. You can do either:
INSERT INTO SWM_SALES_FEEDBACK VALUES (null, 'Jerry','ty');
or
INSERT INTO SWM_SALES_FEEDBACK (NAME_FIRST, TYPE) VALUES ('Jerry','ty');
2) You can use '2012-07-24' format for date column.

Answer 2

With an auto increment, you need to specify your columns
INSERT INTO tablename12 ('name_first','type') values ('Jerry','ty')

Answer 3

If you aren't inserting into every column, you need to tell the query which columns you want to insert into. try INSERT INTO SWM_SALES_FEEDBACK (NAME_FIRST,TYPE) VALUES ('Jerry','ty');

Answer 4

Not sure if mysql has a to_date() function in the new releases:
But, you can use this : Just enclose the date time field in single quotes. You can specify the date time formats
INSERT INTO table_name (birth_date) VALUES ('2008-07-04')
For other date format questions refer this.
For your auto increment, specify the columns
INSERT INTO SWM_SALES_FEEDBACK (NAME_FIRST,TYPE) VALUES ('Jerry','ty');

Answer 5

Point 1
If you don't want to store all fields in DB then you have to specify those column names before VALUES clause as shown below.
INSERT INTO myTable (field2,field3) VALUES ('field2','field3')
In your case, statement should be
INSERT INTO SWM_SALES_FEEDBACK (name_first, type) VALUES ('Jerry','ty')
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Point 2
If you have field as DATETIME, TIMESTAMP as datatype, you can enter date as
INSERT INTO myTable (myDate) VALUES ('2012-12-28 12:12:12')
Format is yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
If you want to store the current time of the system in DB, you could use NOW() as shown below.
INSERT INTO myTable (myDate) VALUES (NOW())

Answer 6

Try the following code
INSERT INTO SWM_SALES_FEEDBACK (NAME_FIRST,TYPE) VALUES ('Jerry','ty');