Databases - How to speed up the execution of INSERT statement in MySQL?
A very good approach to speed up the execution of an INSERT statement is to temporarly disable the keys (when executing your query), this will help MySQL to concetrate on the INSERT and not building indexes at the sametime. The basic syntaxt of such a sample operation is listed below: ALTER TABLE table_name DISABLE KEYS; LOAD DATA INFILE file_name INTO TABLE table_name ALTER TABLE table_name ENABLE KEYS;