In MySQL I'd use
INSERT INTO `mytable` (`col1`, `col2`) VALUES
(1, 'aaa'),
(2, 'bbb');
but this causes an error in SQLite. What is the correct syntax for SQLite?
In MySQL I'd use
INSERT INTO `mytable` (`col1`, `col2`) VALUES
(1, 'aaa'),
(2, 'bbb');
but this causes an error in SQLite. What is the correct syntax for SQLite?
This has already been answered before here: Is it possible to insert multiple rows at a time in an SQLite database?
To answer your comment to OMG Ponies answer:
As of version 3.7.11 SQLite does support multi-row-insert. Richard Hipp comments:
"The new multi-valued insert is merely syntactic suger (sic) for the compound insert.
There is no performance advantage one way or the other."
Use a UNION:
INSERT INTO `mytable`
(`col1`, `col2`)
SELECT 1, 'aaa'
UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 'bbb'
UNION ALL
is quicker than UNION
, because UNION
removes duplicates -- UNION ALL
does not.
Start from version 2012-03-20 (3.7.11), sqlite support the following INSERT syntax:
INSERT INTO 'tablename' ('column1', 'column2') VALUES
('data1', 'data2'),
('data3', 'data4'),
('data5', 'data6'),
('data7', 'data8');
Read documentation: http://www.sqlite.org/lang_insert.html