Question

I am trying to insert 15530 record in a certain table using SQLite3 shell but i get that error , I searched for the solution SQLITE_MAX_COMPOUND_SELECT which defaults to 500 is the reason , but i don’t know how to change it using Shell.

“Error: too many terms in compound SELECT”

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INSERT INTO table_name (my_id, my_name) VALUES
(1, 'Aaliyah'),
(2, 'Alvar Aalto'),
(3, 'Willie Aames'),
...
(15530, 'name');

Answer 1

INSERT INTO doesn’t work that way.

Try this:

BEGIN TRANSACTION
INSERT INTO author (author_id, author_name) VALUES (1, 'Aaliyah')
INSERT INTO author (author_id, author_name) VALUES (2, 'Alvar Aalto')
INSERT INTO author (author_id, author_name) VALUES (3, 'Willie Aames')
...
END TRANSACTION

http://www.sqlite.org/lang_insert.html