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    <blockquote> <p>Why are batch inserts faster?</p> </blockquote> <p>For numerous reasons, but the major three are these:</p> <ul> <li>The query doesn't need to be reparsed.</li> <li>The values are transmitted in one round-trip to the server</li> <li>The commands are inside a single transaction</li> </ul> <blockquote> <p>Is it because the connection and setup overhead for inserting a single row is the same for a set of rows?</p> </blockquote> <p>Partially yes, see above.</p> <blockquote> <p>How do batch updates work?</p> </blockquote> <p>This depends on <code>RDBMS</code>.</p> <p>In <code>Oracle</code> you can transmit all values as a collection and use this collection as a table in a <code>JOIN</code>.</p> <p>In <code>PostgreSQL</code> and <code>MySQL</code>, you can use the following syntax:</p> <pre><code>INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (value1), (value2), … </code></pre> <p>You can also prepare a query once and call it in some kind of a loop. Usually there are methods to do this in a client library.</p> <blockquote> <p>Assuming the table has no uniqueness constraints, insert statements don't really have any effect on other insert statements in the batch. But, during batch updates, an update can alter the state of the table and hence can affect the outcome of other update queries in the batch.</p> </blockquote> <p>Yes, and you may or may not benefit from this behavior.</p> <blockquote> <p>I know that batch insert queries have a syntax where you have all the insert values in one big query. How do batch update queries look like?</p> </blockquote> <p>In <code>Oracle</code>, you use collection in a join:</p> <pre><code>MERGE INTO mytable USING TABLE(:mycol) ON … WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET … </code></pre> <p>In <code>PostgreSQL</code>:</p> <pre><code>UPDATE mytable SET s.s_start = 1 FROM ( VALUES (value1), (value2), … ) q WHERE … </code></pre>
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    1. POWhy are batch inserts/updates faster? How do batch updates work?
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    1. COCould you please explain how to use the last specified statement? I don't quite understand it, however potentially it's something I've been looking for.
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    2. CO@Quassnoi I think you could improve the post by better explaining the difference between "Batch Prepared Statements" and Multi-Row Inserts/Updates (and/or the combination of the two).
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    3. COI guess the OP is talking about JDBC batching (`Statement.addBatch()` and `Statement.executeBatch()`) rather then DBMS specific syntax
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