Fastest Way to Insert Large Number of Rows into MySQL Table

The syntax for the fastest way is given below. Here, we have used INSERT INTO just once and formed an optimized way −

insert into yourTableName values(NULL,yourValue1',yourValue2),(NULL,yourValue1',yourValue2),....N;

Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable1839
     (
     ClientId int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
     ClientName varchar(20),
     ClientAge int
     );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable1839 values(NULL,'Chris',29),(NULL,'Chris',29),(NULL,'Chris',29),(NULL,'Chris',29),(NULL,'Chris',29),(NULL,'Chris',29),(NULL,'Chris',29),(NULL,'Chris',29);
Query OK, 8 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Records: 8  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select * from DemoTable1839;

This will produce the following output −

+----------+------------+-----------+
| ClientId | ClientName | ClientAge |
+----------+------------+-----------+
|        1 | Chris      |        29 |
|        2 | Chris      |        29 |
|        3 | Chris      |        29 |
|        4 | Chris      |        29 |
|        5 | Chris      |        29 |
|        6 | Chris      |        29 |
|        7 | Chris      |        29 |
|        8 | Chris      |        29 |
+----------+------------+-----------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)