Andrew,
Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 10:52:37 PM, you wrote:
AH> I need to be able to insert many rows into a table at once. Only one
AH> field, an incremental serial number will change for each row. Is there
AH> a way to do that in a single query? I need to be able to specify the
AH> start and end points (i.e. start at 599999 and end at 605000) Or do I
AH> have to put the query in a for_next loop and let the webserver churn
AH> away on it?
If you want to insert many rows with one statement, use extended
INSERT, i.e.
INSERT INTO table_name VALUES
(NULL, ....),
............
(NULL, ....);
But you should be careful, because MySQL client sends statement and
all data in this case in one packet.
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