How do I do a bulk insert in mySQL using node.js
How would one do a bulk insert into mySQL if using something like https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql
Answer
Bulk inserts are possible by using nested array, see the github page
Nested arrays are turned into grouped lists (for bulk inserts), e.g.
[['a', 'b'], ['c', 'd']]turns into('a', 'b'), ('c', 'd')
You just insert a nested array of elements.
An example is given in here
var mysql = require('mysql');
var conn = mysql.createConnection({
...
});
var sql = "INSERT INTO Test (name, email, n) VALUES ?";
var values = [
['demian', '[email protected]', 1],
['john', '[email protected]', 2],
['mark', '[email protected]', 3],
['pete', '[email protected]', 4]
];
conn.query(sql, [values], function(err) {
if (err) throw err;
conn.end();
});
Note: values is an array of arrays wrapped in an array
[ [ [...], [...], [...] ] ]
There is also a totally different node-msql package for bulk insertion