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Asked: 2026-05-24T20:16:25+00:00

I would like to insert more rows in one time into my SQL table.

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I would like to insert more rows in one time into my SQL table. I would like to find out what is the best way to do it.

1.) use INSERT statement for each piece of data

INSERT INTO message (email, txt) VALUES ('user1@gmail.com', 'txt1');
INSERT INTO message (email, txt) VALUES ('user2@gmail.com', 'txt2');
INSERT INTO message (email, txt) VALUES ('user3@gmail.com', 'txt3');

2) or use bulk insert instead of it?

INSERT INTO message (email, txt) VALUES ('user1@gmail.com', 'txt1'),('user2@gmail.com', 'txt2'),('user3@gmail.com', 'txt3');

We are talking about tens pieces of data per INSERT. Which one is better from optimization point of view?

Incidentally, txt is a text type column.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It depends on your transaction behaviour, as well as latency to the mysql server.

    But in general, yes, multi-row inserts are good. But be careful you don’t run into the maximum packet size (select @@max_allowed_packet ).

    A multiple-row insert gets done in a single transaction, even if autocommit is on. This reduces the number of syncs into the transaction log which is likely to increase insert performance. This is assuming innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1, which it should be if you care about your data!

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