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  • May 14, 2010 at 4:38 am

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    sabarish (5/14/2010)

    Hi Everyone ,

    I need to insert about 20 records to a database table.... Which is the better approach -

    1) inserting one record at a time

    2) concantening the insert queries using a semicolon and executing it as a batch

    Regards

    Sabarish

    Neither is better, they are essentially the same.

    Have you considered putting the 20 rows into a temp table or table variable and running as a single INSERT?

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