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

You can't but I don't think you miss anything.

Because you call sqlite always in process, it almost doesn't matter in performance whether you execute 1 insert statement or 100 insert statements. The commit however takes a lot of time so put those 100 inserts inside a transaction.

Sqlite is much faster when you use parameterized queries (far less parsing needed) so I wouldn't concatenate big statements like this:

insert into mytable (col1, col2)
select 'a','b'
union 
select 'c','d'
union ...

They need to be parsed again and again because every concatenated statement is different.