da...@lang.hm wrote:
2. insert into table values (),(),(),()

Using this structure would be more database agnostic, but won't perform
as well as the COPY options I don't believe.  It might be interesting to
do a large "insert into table values (),(),()" as a prepared statement,
but then you'd have to have different sizes for each different number of
items you want inserted.

on the other hand, when you have a full queue (lots of stuff to insert) is when you need the performance the most. if it's enough of a win on the database side, it could be worth more effort on the applicaiton side.
Are you sure preparing a simple insert is really worthwhile?

I'd check if I were you.  It shouldn't take long to plan.

Note that this structure (above) is handy but not universal.

You might want to try:

insert into table
select (...)
union
select (...)
union
select (...)
...

as well, since its more univeral. Works on Sybase and SQLServer for example (and v.quickly too - much more so than a TSQL batch with lots of inserts or execs of stored procs)

James



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