Easier INSERT INTO in 11g?

Question

In Oracle, we can pass parameters to a procedure by name. Example:
procedure_name( param1 => 'some_value', param2 => 'some value', param3 => 'some value' );
Is there a similar way in the INSERT statement? Maybe something like:
INSERT INTO table_name (column1 = 'some values', column2 = 'some values', column3 = 'some values');
This way, it's easer to read INSERT statements, especially if there are more columns to be inserted (e.g more than 30 columns!). Any ideas if 11g has this similar feature now? Or maybe this exists already for previous versions as well?
Hmmm, actually, all I am asking is maybe INSERT should have something similar as UPDATE syntax?
Edited by: dongzky on Jun 30, 2010 3:06 PM

Answer 1

You should create your own procedure and work through.
create procedure insert_mytable(p_col1, p_col2...)
insert into mytable(col1,col2...) values (p_c1,p_c2...);
end;
exec insert_mytable(p_col1=>'text',p_col2=>'text'...)I'd say that's very good to have API like that for development to control all the insert.
Nicolas.