When it comes to inserting data quickly and with minimal impact to server performance, SQL Bulk Insert on average can load a database table in seconds. In my test runs, I was able to insert 700,000 ...

You should see the data listed (Figure A). Figure A Continue adding data to the table in the same fashion. And that’s all there is to creating a table and inserting data into it on MySQL.

SQL lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table while working in Access. Sound complicated? It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us.

In the data warehousing world, the best practice is to only insert data into every fact table. Not updating fact rows is understood based on the idea that updates are slower than inserts, and that ...