(apologies, I had a typo in my code sample, here is a correction) if your are using Perl you can "bulk insert" the data... . . . use DBI; our $errorMessage; . . . my @mydata = (); { my @myrow = (1,1); push @mydata, \...@myrow; } { my @myrow = (2,2); push @mydata, \...@myrow; } { my @myrow = (3,3); push @mydata, \...@myrow; } my $numinserts = &bulkInsertData($dbh, "insert into foo(col1,col2) values (?,?)", \...@mydata ); if ( !defined $numinserts ) { die $errorMessage } . . . sub bulkInsertData { my ($dbh,$insertSQL,$rowdata) = @_; $errorMessage = undef;
# prepare insert statement my $stmt = $dbh->prepare($insertSQL); if ( !defined $stmt) { $errorMessage = "bulkInsertData could not prepare SQL $insertSQL: $DBI::errstr"; return undef; } # if no data return without doing anything my @data = @$rowdata; my $nrows = scalar @data; if ( $nrows == 0 ) { return 0; } # insert data into table my @rowStatus = (); my $numInserted = $stmt->execute_array( { ArrayTupleStatus => \...@rowstatus, ArrayTupleFetch => sub{ shift @data } } ); if ( ! defined $numInserted ) { $errorMessage = "bulkInsertData insert failed: " . &bulkErrorMessage(\...@rowstatus); return undef; } elsif ( ! $numInserted == $nrows ) { my $numFailed = $nrows - $numInserted; $errorMessage = "bulkInsertData $numFailed rows failed to insert: " . &bulkErrorMessage(\...@rowstatus); return undef; } else { $errorMessage = undef; } return $numInserted; } -----Original Message----- From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Shaun Seckman (Firaxis) Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:22 PM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: [sqlite] Insert multiple entries in a single INSERT statement Hello, Looking at the SQL syntax chart it doesn't seem like this is possible. In other SQL servers I'm able to use the statement "insert into foo('col1', col2') values ('1', '1'), ('2', '2'), ('3', '3');". Is this possible in SQLite or must I instead insert one at a time. -Shaun _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users