How do I do a bulk insert in mySQL using node.js

I ran into this today (mysql 2.16.0) and thought I'd share my solution:

const items = [
    {name: 'alpha', description: 'describes alpha', value: 1},
    ...
];

db.query(
    'INSERT INTO my_table (name, description, value) VALUES ?',
    [items.map(item => [item.name, item.description, item.value])],
    (error, results) => {...}
);

@Ragnar123 answer is correct, but I see a lot of people saying in the comments that it is not working. I had the same problem and it seems like you need to wrap your array in [] like this:

var pars = [
    [99, "1984-11-20", 1.1, 2.2, 200], 
    [98, "1984-11-20", 1.1, 2.2, 200], 
    [97, "1984-11-20", 1.1, 2.2, 200]
];

It needs to be passed like [pars] into the method.

I was looking around for an answer on bulk inserting Objects.

The answer by Ragnar123 led me to making this function:

function bulkInsert(connection, table, objectArray, callback) {
  let keys = Object.keys(objectArray[0]);
  let values = objectArray.map( obj => keys.map( key => obj[key]));
  let sql = 'INSERT INTO ' + table + ' (' + keys.join(',') + ') VALUES ?';
  connection.query(sql, [values], function (error, results, fields) {
    if (error) callback(error);
    callback(null, results);
  });
}

bulkInsert(connection, 'my_table_of_objects', objectArray, (error, response) => {
  if (error) res.send(error);
  res.json(response);
});

Hope it helps!

All props to Ragnar123 for his answer.

I just wanted to expand it after the question asked by Josh Harington to talk about inserted IDs.

These will be sequential. See this answer : Does a MySQL multi-row insert grab sequential autoincrement IDs?

Hence you can just do this (notice what I did with the result.insertId):

  var statement = 'INSERT INTO ?? (' + sKeys.join() + ') VALUES ?';
  var insertStatement = [tableName, values];
  var sql = db.connection.format(statement, insertStatement);
  db.connection.query(sql, function(err, result) {
    if (err) {
      return clb(err);
    }
    var rowIds = [];
    for (var i = result.insertId; i < result.insertId + result.affectedRows; i++) {
      rowIds.push(i);
    }
    for (var i in persistentObjects) {
      var persistentObject = persistentObjects[i];
      persistentObject[persistentObject.idAttributeName()] = rowIds[i];
    }
    clb(null, persistentObjects);
  });

(I pulled the values from an array of objects that I called persistentObjects.)

Hope this helps.

This is a fast "raw-copy-paste" snipped to push a file column in mysql with node.js >= 11

250k row in few seconds

'use strict';

const mysql = require('promise-mysql');
const fs = require('fs');
const readline = require('readline');

async function run() {
  const connection = await mysql.createConnection({
    host: '1.2.3.4',
    port: 3306,
    user: 'my-user',
    password: 'my-psw',
    database: 'my-db',
  });

  const rl = readline.createInterface({ input: fs.createReadStream('myfile.txt') });

  let total = 0;
  let buff = [];
  for await (const line of rl) {
    buff.push([line]);
    total++;
    if (buff.length % 2000 === 0) {
      await connection.query('INSERT INTO Phone (Number) VALUES ?', [buff]);
      console.log(total);
      buff = [];
    }
  }

  if (buff.length > 0) {
    await connection.query('INSERT INTO Phone (Number) VALUES ?', [buff]);
    console.log(total);
  }

  console.log('end');
  connection.close();
}

run().catch(console.log);

If Ragnar's answer doesn't work for you. Here is probably why (based on my experience) -

1. I wasn't using node-mysql package as shown my Ragnar. I was using mysql package. They're different (if you didn't notice - just like me). But I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the ? not working, since it seemed to work for many folks using the mysql package.

2. Try using a variable instead of ?

The following worked for me -

var mysql = require('node-mysql');
var conn = mysql.createConnection({
    ...
});

var sql = "INSERT INTO Test (name, email, n) VALUES :params";
var values = [
    ['demian', '[email protected]', 1],
    ['john', '[email protected]', 2],
    ['mark', '[email protected]', 3],
    ['pete', '[email protected]', 4]
];
conn.query(sql, { params: values}, function(err) {
    if (err) throw err;
    conn.end();
});

Hope this helps someone.

In case that needed here is how we solved insert of array

request is from postman (You will look at "guests" )

 {
  "author_id" : 3,
  "name" : "World War II",
  "date" : "01 09 1939", 
  "time" : "16 : 22",
  "location" : "39.9333635/32.8597419",
  "guests" : [2, 3, 1337, 1942, 1453]
}

And how we scripted

var express = require('express');
var utils = require('./custom_utils.js');

module.exports = function(database){
    var router = express.Router();

    router.post('/', function(req, res, next) {
        database.query('INSERT INTO activity (author_id, name, date, time, location) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE name = VALUES(name), date = VALUES(date), time = VALUES(time), location = VALUES(location)', 
                [req.body.author_id, req.body.name, req.body.date, req.body.time, req.body.location], function(err, results, fields){
            if(err){
                console.log(err);
                res.json({ status: utils.respondMSG.DB_ERROR });
            }
            else {
                var act_id = results.insertId;
                database.query('INSERT INTO act_guest (user_id, activity_id, status) VALUES ? ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE status = VALUES(status)', 
                        [Array.from(req.body.guests).map(function(g){ return [g, act_id, 0]; })], function(err, results, fields){
                    if(err){
                        console.log(err);
                        res.json({ status: utils.respondMSG.DB_ERROR });
                    }
                    else {
                        res.json({ 
                            status: utils.respondMSG.SUCCEED,
                            data: {
                                activity_id : act_id
                            }
                        });
                    }
                });
            }
        });
    });
    return router;
};

I was having similar problem. It was just inserting one from the list of arrays. It worked after making the below changes.

1. Passed [params] to the query method.
2. Changed the query from insert (a,b) into table1 values (?) ==> insert (a,b) into table1 values ? . ie. Removed the paranthesis around the question mark.

Hope this helps. I am using mysql npm.

Few things I want to mention is that I'm using mysql package for making a connection with my database and what you saw below is working code and written for insert bulk query.

const values = [
  [1, 'DEBUG', 'Something went wrong. I have to debug this.'],
  [2, 'INFO', 'This just information to end user.'],
  [3, 'WARNING', 'Warning are really helping users.'],
  [4, 'SUCCESS', 'If everything works then your request is successful']
];

const query = "INSERT INTO logs(id, type, desc) VALUES ?";

const query = connection.query(query, [values], function(err, result) {
  if (err) {
    console.log('err', err)
  }

  console.log('result', result)
});

Bulk insert in Node.js can be done using the below code. I have referred lots of blog for getting this work.

please refer this link as well. https://www.technicalkeeda.com/nodejs-tutorials/insert-multiple-records-into-mysql-using-nodejs

The working code.

  const educations = request.body.educations;
  let queryParams = [];
  for (let i = 0; i < educations.length; i++) {
    const education = educations[i];
    const userId = education.user_id;
    const from = education.from;
    const to = education.to;
    const instituteName = education.institute_name;
    const city = education.city;
    const country = education.country;
    const certificateType = education.certificate_type;
    const studyField = education.study_field;
    const duration = education.duration;

    let param = [
      from,
      to,
      instituteName,
      city,
      country,
      certificateType,
      studyField,
      duration,
      userId,
    ];

    queryParams.push(param);
  }

  let sql =
    "insert into tbl_name (education_from, education_to, education_institute_name, education_city, education_country, education_certificate_type, education_study_field, education_duration, user_id) VALUES ?";
  let sqlQuery = dbManager.query(sql, [queryParams], function (
    err,
    results,
    fields
  ) {
    let res;
    if (err) {
      console.log(err);
      res = {
        success: false,
        message: "Insertion failed!",
      };
    } else {
      res = {
        success: true,
        id: results.insertId,
        message: "Successfully inserted",
      };
    }

    response.send(res);
  });

Hope this will help you.

If you want to insert object, use this:

    currentLogs = [
 { socket_id: 'Server', message: 'Socketio online', data: 'Port  3333', logged: '2014-05-14 14:41:11' },
 { socket_id: 'Server', message: 'Waiting for Pi to connect...', data: 'Port: 8082', logged: '2014-05-14 14:41:11' }
];

console.warn(currentLogs.map(logs=>[ logs.socket_id , logs.message , logs.data , logs.logged ]));

The output will be:

[
  [ 'Server', 'Socketio online', 'Port  3333', '2014-05-14 14:41:11' ],
  [
    'Server',
    'Waiting for Pi to connect...',
    'Port: 8082',
    '2014-05-14 14:41:11'
  ]
]

Also, please check the documentation to know more about the map function.

Client.createClient = (clientReqData, result) =>{
var command = 'INSERT INTO client (name,email,phone,country_code,city,state,address,salaes_account_manager,internal_notes) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)' ;
dbConn.query(command,[clientReqData.name,
    clientReqData.email,clientReqData.phone,clientReqData.country_code,clientReqData.city,clientReqData.state,clientReqData.address,clientReqData.salaes_account_manager,clientReqData.internal_notes],(err,res)=>{
    if(err){
        console.log(err)
    }else {
        client_id = res.insertId;
        var command = 'INSERT INTO client_contact_person (name, email ,phone,client_id) VALUES ?';
        dbConn.query(command,
            [clientReqData.contact.map(item => [item.name, item.email, item.phone,client_id])],
            (err, res) => {
                if(err) throw err
            }
        );
        result(null,res);
    }
})

}

I propose you to use this library specialized in MySQL. Its use is very simple.

npm i object_mysql

This would be an example based on the response of January 22, 2015 at 9:39 p.m.

import db from 'object_mysql';

const { Test } = await db();

const values = [
    { name:'demian', email:'[email protected]', n:1 },
    { name:'john', email:'[email protected]', n:2 },
    { name:'mark', email:'[email protected]', n:3 },
    { name:'pete', email:'[email protected]', n:4 }
];

await Test.add(values);

Other answers assume that each inserted object's properties will be enumerated in the same order. See: Does JavaScript guarantee object property order? To be safe, you probably want to protect against this:

import mysql from 'mysql2'

// assumption: all objects have the same properties to insert
function constructMultipleInsertSqlStatement(tableName, objects) {
    const columnNames = Object.keys(objects[0]); // guaranteed order
    const valuesArray = objects.map(o => columnNames.map(s => o[s]));
    return mysql.format(`INSERT INTO ?? (??) VALUES ?;`, [tableName, columnNames, valuesArray]);
}

Example usage:

const myTable = 'table';
const myObjects = [
    { name:'demian', email:'[email protected]', n:1 },
    { email:'[email protected]', name:'john', n:2 },
    { name:'mark', n:3, email:'[email protected]' },
    { n:4, name:'pete', email:'[email protected]' }
];

console.log(constructMultipleInsertSqlStatement(myTable, myObjects));
/* INSERT INTO `table` (`name`, `email`, `n`) VALUES ('demian', '[email protected]', 1), ('john', '[email protected]', 2), ('mark', '[email protected]', 3), ('pete', '[email protected]', 4); */