In SQL land, all databases support batch inserts. Batch inserts are an effective and efficient mechanism to insert a lot of similar data. That is, instead of issuing x insert statements, you execute 1 insert with x records. This is much more efficient because the insert statement doesn’t need to be re-parsed x times, there is only 1 network trip as opposed to x, and in the case of transactions, there is only 1 transaction instead of x. When compared to x inserts, batch inserts are always faster.
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