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MySQL: Insert multiple records at once

Question by NetLabel | 2012-03-23 at 15:27

I have about 50 to 100 records to be inserted into a table with a PHP script. However, I do not want to call 50 times a new INSERT command after each other, which seems to me a little bit bad for the performace.

There must be a better and also faster way! Does any one of you have a solution?

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You are right! Calling a hundred times an INSERT in a row makes little sense. The syntax, you are looking for is as follows:

INSERT INTO tab (a, b, c)
VALUES (1,2,3),(4,5,6),(7,8,9)

Thus, it is much like a normal INSERT, you can easily attach more records with a comma separated.
2012-03-24 at 20:52

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