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So I'm trying to insert 3 rows into 2 different tables by doing this:

INSERT INTO GAMES.ATHLETE (ATHLETE_NO, ATHLETE_NAME, ATHLETE_BIRTHDATE, ATHLETE_BIRTHPLACE, ATHLETE_BORN_COUNTRY, ATHLETE_GENDER, ATHLETE_HEIGHT, ATHLETE_WEIGHT, ATHLETE__TEAM_COUNTRY)
VALUES ('12345', 'Saif Haseeb', '08-NOV-1995', 'Clayton', 'AUS', 'M', '176', '75', 'AUS'), ('12323',  'Rajandeep', '01-FEB-1995', 'Melbourne', 'AUS', 'M', '180', '77', 'AUS'), ('2818', 'Jen Selter', '18- APR-1993', 'Paris', 'FRA', 'F', '169', '63', 'FRA')
INSERT INTO GAMES.COMPETES (ATHLETE_NO, DISCIPLINE_CODE, SG_GAMENO)
VALUES ('12345', 'FB', '30'), ('12323', 'FB', '30'), ('2818', 'TT', '29')
INSERT INTO GAMES.VENUE (VENUE_NO, VENUE_NAME, VENUE_LOCATION, VENUE_USEDFROM, VENUE_USEDTO,    VENUE_SEATINGCAPACITY, VENUE_STRUCTURE, VENUE_USE)
VALUES ('SY', 'SYDNEYSTADIUM', 'SYDNEY', '14-AUG-2014', '19-AUG-2014', '98172', 'A', 'Y');

However I keep getting the error in the title. Can anyone help me out here please?

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    What is the error message ?? Commented Sep 15, 2014 at 10:06
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    You are missing the ; to terminate each statmeent. Commented Sep 15, 2014 at 10:06
  • @AlexPoole: I disagree with that. In the list of questions on the homepage I find it very useful to be able to distinguish the different DBMS but just looking at the title. Commented Sep 15, 2014 at 10:20

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Oracle doesn't let you type insert into ... values (...),(...) like PostgreSQL does you need to split it into several inserts:

INSERT INTO GAMES.ATHLETE (ATHLETE_NO, ATHLETE_NAME, ATHLETE_BIRTHDATE, ATHLETE_BIRTHPLACE, ATHLETE_BORN_COUNTRY, ATHLETE_GENDER, ATHLETE_HEIGHT, ATHLETE_WEIGHT, ATHLETE__TEAM_COUNTRY)
VALUES ('12345', 'Saif Haseeb', '08-NOV-1995', 'Clayton', 'AUS', 'M', '176', '75', 'AUS');
INSERT INTO GAMES.ATHLETE (ATHLETE_NO, ATHLETE_NAME, ATHLETE_BIRTHDATE, ATHLETE_BIRTHPLACE, ATHLETE_BORN_COUNTRY, ATHLETE_GENDER, ATHLETE_HEIGHT, ATHLETE_WEIGHT, ATHLETE__TEAM_COUNTRY) 
VALUES ('12323',  'Rajandeep', '01-FEB-1995', 'Melbourne', 'AUS', 'M', '180', '77', 'AUS'); 
INSERT INTO GAMES.ATHLETE (ATHLETE_NO, ATHLETE_NAME, ATHLETE_BIRTHDATE, ATHLETE_BIRTHPLACE, ATHLETE_BORN_COUNTRY, ATHLETE_GENDER, ATHLETE_HEIGHT, ATHLETE_WEIGHT, ATHLETE__TEAM_COUNTRY) 
VALUES ('2818', 'Jen Selter', '18- APR-1993', 'Paris', 'FRA', 'F', '169', '63', 'FRA')
INSERT INTO GAMES.COMPETES (ATHLETE_NO, DISCIPLINE_CODE, SG_GAMENO)
VALUES ('12345', 'FB', '30');
INSERT INTO GAMES.COMPETES (ATHLETE_NO, DISCIPLINE_CODE, SG_GAMENO) 
VALUES ('12323', 'FB', '30'), ('2818', 'TT', '29');
INSERT INTO GAMES.VENUE (VENUE_NO, VENUE_NAME, VENUE_LOCATION, VENUE_USEDFROM, VENUE_USEDTO, VENUE_SEATINGCAPACITY, VENUE_STRUCTURE, VENUE_USE)
VALUES ('SY', 'SYDNEYSTADIUM', 'SYDNEY', '14-AUG-2014', '19-AUG-2014', '98172', 'A', 'Y');
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These are three Statements, but you forgot to end each with a semicolon.

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Syntax for inserting multiple rows in Oracle

INSERT ALL
  INTO table1 (column1, column2, column3) VALUES ('val1', 'val2', 'val3')
  INTO table1 (column1, column2, column3) VALUES ('val1', 'val2', 'val3')
  INTO table1 (column1, column2, column3) VALUES ('val1', 'val2', 'val3')
SELECT * FROM dual;

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Place Semicolon at the end of each statement.

INSERT INTO GAMES.ATHLETE (ATHLETE_NO, ATHLETE_NAME, ATHLETE_BIRTHDATE, ATHLETE_BIRTHPLACE, ATHLETE_BORN_COUNTRY, ATHLETE_GENDER, ATHLETE_HEIGHT, ATHLETE_WEIGHT, ATHLETE__TEAM_COUNTRY)
VALUES ('12345', 'Saif Haseeb', '08-NOV-1995', 'Clayton', 'AUS', 'M', '176', '75', 'AUS'), ('12323',  'Rajandeep', '01-FEB-1995', 'Melbourne', 'AUS', 'M', '180', '77', 'AUS'), ('2818', 'Jen Selter', '18- APR-1993', 'Paris', 'FRA', 'F', '169', '63', 'FRA');


INSERT INTO GAMES.COMPETES (ATHLETE_NO, DISCIPLINE_CODE, SG_GAMENO)
VALUES ('12345', 'FB', '30'), ('12323', 'FB', '30'), ('2818', 'TT', '29');


INSERT INTO GAMES.VENUE (VENUE_NO, VENUE_NAME, VENUE_LOCATION, VENUE_USEDFROM, VENUE_USEDTO,    VENUE_SEATINGCAPACITY, VENUE_STRUCTURE, VENUE_USE)
VALUES ('SY', 'SYDNEYSTADIUM', 'SYDNEY', '14-AUG-2014', '19-AUG-2014', '98172', 'A', 'Y');

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