Is it possible to insert multiple rows at a time in an SQLite database?

Question

In MySQL you can insert multiple rows like this:

INSERT INTO \'tablename\' (\'column1\', \'column2\') VALUES
    (\'data1\', \'data2\'),
    (\'data1\', \'da         


        

Answer 1

As the other posters have said, SQLite does not support this syntax. I don't know if compound INSERTs are part of the SQL standard, but in my experience they're not implemented in many products.

As an aside, you should be aware that INSERT performance in SQLite is improved considerably if you wrap multiple INSERTs in an explicit transaction.