How often are you going to be inserting all this data? Is it a one-time thing? Monthly? Weekly? I doubt optimizing for speed will matter unless you need to insert that much data once an hour or so.

Good ol' placeholders with multiple execute statements should do fine:

my @DATA = (
    [ qw( foo bar baz ) ], 
    [ qw( foo1 bar1 baz1 ) ], 
    . . . 
);
my $sql = q/
    INSERT INTO table 
    (
        col1, 
        col2, 
        col3 
    )
    VALUES ( ?, ?, ?)
/;
# $dbh is an existing DBI connection
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) 
    or die . . . ;
foreach my $row (@DATA) {
    $sth->execute( @{$row} );
}
my $sth->finish;

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In reply to Re: Database input speed question by hardburn
in thread Database input speed question by jjhorner

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