I am using the following to insert 26,000 records into a sqlserver database. It takes 7 minutes. I would appreciate suggestions to make it faster. 
print "\n\t\tdo you want to write out the table (Y/N)    ";
my $ans = (<STDIN>);
if ($ans =~ /y/i) {
    # say "\n\t\tDeleting Current Week: $weeknumber from Server Patch 
+table";
    my $sql  = qq(DELETE FROM WFSServer_Patch WHERE weeknum = $weeknum
+ber);
    my $rows = $dbh->do($sql);

    say "\n\t\tWriting Server Patch Table";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare(<<SQL);
insert into WFSServer_Patch (weeknum, server, patch) values (?, ?, ?)
SQL
    foreach my $server (sort keys %server_patch) {
        foreach my $desc (sort keys %{ $server_patch{$server}} ) {
            $sth->execute($weeknumber, $server, $desc) or die "can't e
+xecute statement: $DBI::errstr\n";
        }
    }
}

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