Multiple Inserts with MySQL

June 10, 2005

Andy Jarrett posted this technique for insterting multiple rows (bulk insert) in one SQL statement a few months ago. It's a handy trick:

INSERT INTO x (a,b)
VALUES 
 ('1', 'one'),
 ('2', 'two'),
 ('3', 'three')

I tried that on a couple hundred thousand rows today, and I got an error that my statement was bigger than the Max Allowed Packet size in MySQL. So keep that in mind when using. You can either change the setting, or go about it a different way.

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On 06/10/2005 at 7:57:42 PM EDT Mr K wrote:

This is all good and well if you are inserting the exact same information into multiple tables, but what if you want to insert into 2 or more tables the information from ONE form, but each table has different sets of information. You have to then do it as 2 or more seperate INSERTS :(

On 04/11/2006 at 2:08:39 AM EDT sarah wrote:

hi, how do you insert data from one record's column into another record's column in the same table. p.s the columns from where and to where data is being transfered is the same column in the same table.

On 07/25/2007 at 12:53:09 AM EDT nurez wrote:

re: how do you insert data from one record's ..?

using inner join... its helps vour u

On 08/31/2007 at 7:16:53 AM EDT Rajesh wrote:

God bless Andy!By far, this has been the best tip that someone ever gave in a forum. It greatly reduced my burden of inserting 10 Mil rows..

On 09/26/2007 at 7:09:12 PM EDT kendall wrote:

you could use transactions to insert in to multiple tables.

On 10/05/2007 at 6:55:40 PM EDT Derrick wrote:

OK, so how can I do this with CFQUERY? When working with MySQL (PhpMyAdmin), this works fine--> [ INSERT into table (colA, colB, colC, colD) VALUES (1958, 106165412, 'stuff', 1), (1958, 106165412, 'stuff', 1), (1958, 106165412, 'stuff', 1), (1958, 106165412, 'stuff', 1), (1958, 106165412, 'stuff', 1) ] But if I wrap it in CFQUERY, ColdFusion (BlueDragon) gives an error. Why?

On 11/30/2007 at 3:43:51 PM EST Dan wrote:

You would have to anyway.

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On 06/10/2005 at 5:57:42 PM MDT Mr K wrote: 1 This is all good and well if you are inserting the exact same information into multiple tables, but what if you want to insert into 2 or more tables the information from ONE form, but each table has different sets of information. You have to then do it as 2 or more seperate INSERTS :(

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On 02/23/2008 at 9:40:15 AM EST mezszczyzna wrote:

My problem is similar to above, please look here http://bling-bling.pl in comments section where im adding comment throght ajax to multiple tables

On 04/03/2009 at 2:03:00 AM EDT purnima wrote:

I want to insert data from one table to other table. Both the table columns are different. Help me out.

On 12/22/2009 at 8:06:11 AM EST www.homequran.com wrote:

This is an excellent post.

On 08/14/2010 at 5:46:29 AM EDT arthur wrote:

I am trying to do mass insert on directory MySQL db and such script timeouts. I have set the timeout to 0 (unlimited) in php.ini and not running insafe mode. After I restart it spits out duplicate data errors. What might be the issue? This is the site I am talking about http://quotes.insurance-forums.net/

On 10/05/2010 at 8:05:22 PM EDT khadim wrote:

salam friendz any one can help me in inserting data into more than one tables through a single insert query

On 11/04/2010 at 8:23:12 AM EDT http://www.urldreamer.com wrote:

Nice. didn't use this solution until now. Mainly did it with "," seperator.

On 01/11/2011 at 5:04:06 AM EST Som Darshan wrote:

Thank you sir. I have used this query to insert multiple record. There is still a question. If there are lac of record insert in same query. will there any problem with the query. or we have to split the query with thousands.

also I want a progress that it will show how much record inserted. like 2 record inserted the 3,4,5 and so on. is it possible

Thanks in advance.