IomSpace:

If speed is the issue, I'd use this approach:

  1. Create a surrogate temporary table with no indexes for each table you're loading.

  2. Bulk load your temporary tables. (I don't know MySQL, so I'm unfamiliar with its bulk data loader.)

  3. Insert new records from your temporary tables into your production tables.

    -- Only insert them if they don't exist
INSERT INTO dev.blocks (names)
  SELECT names FROM dev.tmp_blocks
  WHERE names NOT IN (
    SELECT names from dev.blocks
  )
INSERT INTO dev.vials (block_id, lt, well_position, gene, barcode)
  SELECT block_id, lt, well_position, gene, barcode
  FROM dev.tmp_vials
  WHERE ... clause to prevent inserting duplicates ...

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  4. Drop your surrogate tables.

This way, you can let the database do the work as efficiently as possible. You'll reduce the number of transactions on the database, reduce the traffic between your server and the database server, reduce the I/O consumed by the database, etc.

...roboticus

In reply to Re: Is there a more efficient way? by roboticus
in thread Is there a more efficient way? by lomSpace

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