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For SQL Server 2005, if I want to insert about 20 or 30 rows each with three columns, which approach is faster and efficient? The calling application is a C# 4.0 .Net console application.
a) Passing the values as XML to a stored proc and parsing it and doing the insert
OR
b) Construct a SQL command with INSERT...VALUES... SELECT() UNION ALL as suggested here: SQL Server 2005: Insert multiple rows with single query ?
Thank you.
Did you try them? To be honest, for 20 or 30 rows, you’d be really hard pressed to find a difference. At a larger scale, I would expect the cost of extra data and parsing involved with XML to extract data would make it the less efficient choice. In SQL Server 2008 there is a more efficient
VALUES()constructor that doesn’t requireUNION ALL, and there is also a new approach called table-valued parameters.