What is an efficient way of inserting thousands of records into an SQLite table using Django?

Question

I have to insert 8000+ records into a SQLite database using Django\'s ORM. This operation needs to be run as a cronjob about once per minute.
At the moment I\'m using a

Answer 1

I recommend using plain SQL (not ORM) you can insert multiple rows with a single insert:

insert into A select from B;

The select from B portion of your sql could be as complicated as you want it to get as long as the results match the columns in table A and there are no constraint conflicts.