INSERT ALL
INTO product (product_id,product_name) VALUES (1000, 'Disc')
INTO product (product_id, product_name) VALUES (2000, 'Floppy')
INTO customers (customer_id, customer_name, city) VALUES (999999, 'Anderson Construction', 'New York')
SELECT * FROM dual;

INSERT INTO TABLE_NAME (column_name1,column_name2,column_name3.......) values (&column_name1,&column_name2,........);

Example:-
create table KRP (ename varchar2(20),contact number(10));
Table create
insert into krp (ename,contact) values ('&ename',&contact);

How is ‘&’ used to insert multiples values on 9i ?
Also, what exactly do you mean by ‘multiple values’ (the original question was about multiple ‘rows’) ?

My previous message got truncated when I used a less-than sign. I’ll try it again, using ampersand-lt-semicolon.

The last line of the previous statement should read:

WHERE	ROWNUM	<= 5;

Notice that this statement is much harder to read and much longer than using five separate INSERT statements. You can decide which is better to use in your application.

If there are patterns in the data (such as dt in this example, which is the firt day of five consecutive months), you can shorten the code, for instance:

INSERT INTO table_x (id, dt, name)
SELECT	ROWNUM + 200
,	ADD_MONTHS	( TO_DATE ('01-Dec-2007', 'DD-Mon-YYYY')
			, ROWNUM
			)
,	CASE	ROWNUM
		WHEN	1	THEN	'Aardvark'
		WHEN	2	THEN	'Bass'
		WHEN	3	THEN	'Cedusa'
		WHEN	4	THEN	'Dodo'
		WHEN	5	THEN	'E. Coli'
	END
FROM	all_views
WHERE	ROWNUM	<= 5;

The form of a multi-row INSERT is

INSERT INTO table_name (column_1, column_2, ..., column_n)
SELECT value_1, value_2, ..., value_n
FROM ...

If the values don’t actually exist in any table, you can SELECT them as literals from any table or view, such as dual or one of the data dictionary views. (The view all_views is handy because everyone can SELECT from it, and it has hundreds of rows.) The pseudo column ROWNUM is n for the nth row selected, and you can map this to your values using CASE (as shown below) or DECODE.

For example, say you want to INSERT this data into table_x:

        ID DT          NAME
---------- ----------- --------------------
       201 01-Jan-2008 Aardvark
       202 01-Feb-2008 Bass
       203 01-Mar-2008 Cedusa
       204 01-Apr-2008 Dodo
       205 01-May-2008 E. Coli

Here’s how you can INSERT it in a single SQL statement:

INSERT INTO table_x (id, dt, name)
SELECT	CASE	ROWNUM
		WHEN	1	THEN	201
		WHEN	2	THEN	202
		WHEN	3	THEN	203
		WHEN	4	THEN	204
		WHEN	5	THEN	205
	END
,	TO_DATE	( CASE	ROWNUM
			WHEN	1	THEN	'01-Jan-2008'
			WHEN	2	THEN	'01-Feb-2008'
			WHEN	3	THEN	'01-Mar-2008'
			WHEN	4	THEN	'01-Apr-2008'
			WHEN	5	THEN	'01-May-2008'
		  END
		, 'DD-Mon-YYYY'
		)
,	CASE	ROWNUM
		WHEN	1	THEN	'Aardvark'
		WHEN	2	THEN	'Bass'
		WHEN	3	THEN	'Cedusa'
		WHEN	4	THEN	'Dodo'
		WHEN	5	THEN	'E. Coli'
	END
FROM	all_views
WHERE	ROWNUM