How do I do a bulk insert in mySQL using node.js

Question

How would one do a bulk insert into mySQL if using something like https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql

Answer 1

I was looking around for an answer on bulk inserting Objects.

The answer by Ragnar123 led me to making this function:

function bulkInsert(connection, table, objectArray, callback) {
  let keys = Object.keys(objectArray[0]);
  let values = objectArray.map( obj => keys.map( key => obj[key]));
  let sql = 'INSERT INTO ' + table + ' (' + keys.join(',') + ') VALUES ?';
  connection.query(sql, [values], function (error, results, fields) {
    if (error) callback(error);
    callback(null, results);
  });
}

bulkInsert(connection, 'my_table_of_objects', objectArray, (error, response) => {
  if (error) res.send(error);
  res.json(response);
});

Hope it helps!

Answer 2

This is a fast "raw-copy-paste" snipped to push a file column in mysql with node.js >= 11

250k row in few seconds

'use strict';

const mysql = require('promise-mysql');
const fs = require('fs');
const readline = require('readline');

async function run() {
  const connection = await mysql.createConnection({
    host: '1.2.3.4',
    port: 3306,
    user: 'my-user',
    password: 'my-psw',
    database: 'my-db',
  });

  const rl = readline.createInterface({ input: fs.createReadStream('myfile.txt') });

  let total = 0;
  let buff = [];
  for await (const line of rl) {
    buff.push([line]);
    total++;
    if (buff.length % 2000 === 0) {
      await connection.query('INSERT INTO Phone (Number) VALUES ?', [buff]);
      console.log(total);
      buff = [];
    }
  }

  if (buff.length > 0) {
    await connection.query('INSERT INTO Phone (Number) VALUES ?', [buff]);
    console.log(total);
  }

  console.log('end');
  connection.close();
}

run().catch(console.log);

Answer 3

Few things I want to mention is that I'm using mysql package for making a connection with my database and what you saw below is working code and written for insert bulk query.

const values = [
  [1, 'DEBUG', 'Something went wrong. I have to debug this.'],
  [2, 'INFO', 'This just information to end user.'],
  [3, 'WARNING', 'Warning are really helping users.'],
  [4, 'SUCCESS', 'If everything works then your request is successful']
];

const query = "INSERT INTO logs(id, type, desc) VALUES ?";

const query = connection.query(query, [values], function(err, result) {
  if (err) {
    console.log('err', err)
  }

  console.log('result', result)
});

Answer 4

If Ragnar's answer doesn't work for you. Here is probably why (based on my experience) -

1. I wasn't using node-mysql package as shown my Ragnar. I was using mysql package. They're different (if you didn't notice - just like me). But I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the ? not working, since it seemed to work for many folks using the mysql package.

2. Try using a variable instead of ?

The following worked for me -

var mysql = require('node-mysql');
var conn = mysql.createConnection({
    ...
});

var sql = "INSERT INTO Test (name, email, n) VALUES :params";
var values = [
    ['demian', 'demian@gmail.com', 1],
    ['john', 'john@gmail.com', 2],
    ['mark', 'mark@gmail.com', 3],
    ['pete', 'pete@gmail.com', 4]
];
conn.query(sql, { params: values}, function(err) {
    if (err) throw err;
    conn.end();
});

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 5

Bulk insert in Node.js can be done using the below code. I have referred lots of blog for getting this work.

please refer this link as well. https://www.technicalkeeda.com/nodejs-tutorials/insert-multiple-records-into-mysql-using-nodejs

The working code.

  const educations = request.body.educations;
  let queryParams = [];
  for (let i = 0; i < educations.length; i++) {
    const education = educations[i];
    const userId = education.user_id;
    const from = education.from;
    const to = education.to;
    const instituteName = education.institute_name;
    const city = education.city;
    const country = education.country;
    const certificateType = education.certificate_type;
    const studyField = education.study_field;
    const duration = education.duration;

    let param = [
      from,
      to,
      instituteName,
      city,
      country,
      certificateType,
      studyField,
      duration,
      userId,
    ];

    queryParams.push(param);
  }

  let sql =
    "insert into tbl_name (education_from, education_to, education_institute_name, education_city, education_country, education_certificate_type, education_study_field, education_duration, user_id) VALUES ?";
  let sqlQuery = dbManager.query(sql, [queryParams], function (
    err,
    results,
    fields
  ) {
    let res;
    if (err) {
      console.log(err);
      res = {
        success: false,
        message: "Insertion failed!",
      };
    } else {
      res = {
        success: true,
        id: results.insertId,
        message: "Successfully inserted",
      };
    }

    response.send(res);
  });

Hope this will help you.

Answer 6

In case that needed here is how we solved insert of array

request is from postman (You will look at "guests" )

 {
  "author_id" : 3,
  "name" : "World War II",
  "date" : "01 09 1939", 
  "time" : "16 : 22",
  "location" : "39.9333635/32.8597419",
  "guests" : [2, 3, 1337, 1942, 1453]
}

And how we scripted

var express = require('express');
var utils = require('./custom_utils.js');

module.exports = function(database){
    var router = express.Router();

    router.post('/', function(req, res, next) {
        database.query('INSERT INTO activity (author_id, name, date, time, location) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE name = VALUES(name), date = VALUES(date), time = VALUES(time), location = VALUES(location)', 
                [req.body.author_id, req.body.name, req.body.date, req.body.time, req.body.location], function(err, results, fields){
            if(err){
                console.log(err);
                res.json({ status: utils.respondMSG.DB_ERROR });
            }
            else {
                var act_id = results.insertId;
                database.query('INSERT INTO act_guest (user_id, activity_id, status) VALUES ? ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE status = VALUES(status)', 
                        [Array.from(req.body.guests).map(function(g){ return [g, act_id, 0]; })], function(err, results, fields){
                    if(err){
                        console.log(err);
                        res.json({ status: utils.respondMSG.DB_ERROR });
                    }
                    else {
                        res.json({ 
                            status: utils.respondMSG.SUCCEED,
                            data: {
                                activity_id : act_id
                            }
                        });
                    }
                });
            }
        });
    });
    return router;
};