Though the typical SQL Insert statement processes one record at a time, MySQL's Insert lets you combine multiple records into a single statement.

this will return: "(1 row(s) affected)" But now I need to know, what data was actually inserted? SQL Server has answered this question in 2005 with the OUTPUT statement: This will return a dataset ...

Worthwhile T-SQL Additions Compound operators offer coding shortcuts, while the INSERT statement lets you ask for rows of data without wearing out the keyboard.