IDBCommand Parameters for multi-line insert

Question

I want to create a multi-line insert statement along these lines:

insert into foo (
    value1,
    value2,
    value3
) values 
( "1", "2", "3"),
( "4", "5", "6"),
( "7", "8", "9");

where the number of rows to be inserted is variable. Is there a way to construct this query using IDBCommand parameterization?

Answer 1

Something like this should work fine.

IDbCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("insert into foo(col, col2, col3), values");
int parms = 0;

for(int i = 0 ; i<3; i++)
{
    sb.AppendFormat("( @{0}, @{1}, @{2}),", parms, parms + 1, parms + 2);
    cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter((parms++).ToString(), ""));
    cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter((parms++).ToString(), ""));
    cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter((parms++).ToString(), ""));
}
sb.Append(";");
cmd.Parameters;
cmd.CommandText = sb.ToString().Replace(",;", ";");