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June 10, 2005

Multiple Inserts with MySQL

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 5:57:42 PM MDT 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 12:08:39 AM MDT 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 07/24/2007 at 10:53:09 PM MDT nurez wrote:

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

using inner join... its helps vour u

On 08/31/2007 at 5:16:53 AM MDT 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 5:09:12 PM MDT kendall wrote:

you could use transactions to insert in to multiple tables.

On 10/05/2007 at 4:55:40 PM MDT 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 1:43:51 PM MST 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 :(

On 02/23/2008 at 7:35:57 AM MST kuchnie wrote: