Thomas, If you're inserting alot of rows, (eg millions) then concating them and calling the db once probably would give a small speed advantage, because of the database handshaking. But I would look at the load the database is under, if there is alot of users hitting the database with small inserts/queries then the database is going to suffer as opposed to the same number of users hitting the database once with a script. The only problem I can think of, from php (client) point of view, if the script (concated inserts) errors, then you will need to handle where it went wrong, if it was loop, you know exactly what went wrong by outputing the current insert statement. C. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas [mailto:thomas.hochstetter@xxxxxxx] Sent: 02 June 2005 10:20 To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Multiple inserts as a single string? Hi there, I have a bit of strange question: when wanting to insert multiple records into the db, instead of looping through the set and executing mysql_query (which will then call the db n times), is it not better to concat a string with all the insert statements and let mysql handle the inserting, that way we don't call the db n times from php. Does that make any difference? Maybe I am just stupid . Thomas ************************ This message has been delivered to the Internet by the Revenue Internet e-mail service ************************* -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
