Inserting Binary data into MySQL (without PreparedStatement's)

Question

I\'m trying to insert some Binary data into a MySQL database without using prepared statements. The reason for this is that I concatenate thousands of statements into a sing

Answer 1

A prepared statement is undoubtedly the fastest approach. The reason that you find it too slow might be because you are not using it inside a transaction. You might be able to do something cute with base 64, but it would be very slow.

Answer 2

Found the solution .... Although not something I saw documented anywhere .....

You can insert Binary data directly by writing the bytes converted to HEX and preceeded by 0x

For example:

INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (1,0x19c0300dc90e7cedf64703ed8ae8683b,2);

Answer 3

Have you tried to use PreparedStatement in Batch mode?

    PreparedStatement pStmt = ...;
    while(...) { // use for or whatever loop
        pStmt.clearParameters();
        pStmt.setBinaryStream(2, ...);
        pStmt.addBatch();
    }
    pStmt.executeBatch();

For more detailed information on how you can make Batches efficient with JDBC and MySQL have a look here: MySQL and JDBC with rewriteBatchedStatements=true