littlehorse:

With a little more information, we might be able to provide a bit better guidance. A couple of unsubstantiated notes:

• If the SQL is deleting and then inserting records with the same primary key, then it may be better to modify the script generating the SQL to use update statements.
• If the data you're inserting always comes from other tables, it may be that the SQL is a particular operation record-by-record instead of treating the records as a set. For example, if you're updating the price column, then:
  

  update the_table set price=price*1.2 where material='iron'
  update the_table set price=price*1.1 where material='plastic'
  [download]

  
  is much better than
  

  update the_table set price=17.54 where the_key=123
  update the_table set price=1.50 where the_key=125
  update the_table set price=15.00 where the_key=126
  ...etc...
  [download]

• If you're performing different types of transformations, it may be better to operate on columns instead of rows. For example:
  

  update the_table set price=price*2 where material='iron'
  update the_table set drop_ship=1 where is_heavy=1 or is_large=1
  [download]

  If you can provide a dozen or so records (sanitized, of course), we could look things over and see if we can offer suggestions.

...roboticus

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