I'm writing a server application using Node.js and I have a problem using the mysql library.
The problem appears when I try to make bulk inserts into my database this is a example code I'm using.
const sql = require("mysql")
//Connection settings
const sqlConfig = require("../settings");
function executeSql(queryData, callback){
let connection = sql.createConnection(sqlConfig.dbConfig);
connection.connect(function(err){
if(err){
console.error('connection error: ' + err.stack);
callback(null, err);
return;
}
connection.query(queryData, function(error, results, fields){
if(error){
console.error('error: '+error.stack);
callback(null, error);
return;
}
callback(results, null);
});
});
};
let sqlquery = "INSERT INTO table(val1, val2) VALUES (?)";
let val1 = [1,2,3,4];
let val2 = 1;
let values = [];
for(let i = 0; i<val1.length, i++)
values.push([val1[i], val2]);
let queryData = {
sql: sqlquery,
values: values
}
executeSql(queryData, function(data, err) {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
} else {
console.log("success");
}
});
The problem is that the program prints out "success" but in my DataBase there is only one row of data instead of 4, and I don't know what's wrong with this.
Ok the problem was that it needed an arrays of arrays of arrays and the query was bad.
This is the correct query
let sqlquery = "INSERT INTO table(val1, val2) VALUES ?";
And when creating the queryData object:
let queryData = {
sql: sqlquery,
values: [values]
}