MySQL bulk INSERT or UPDATE

Question

Is there any way of performing in bulk a query like INSERT OR UPDATE on the MySQL server?

INSERT IGNORE ...

won\'t work, becau

Answer 1

You can insert/update multiple rows using INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. The documentation has the following example:

INSERT INTO table (a,b,c) VALUES (1,2,3),(4,5,6)
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE c=VALUES(a)+VALUES(b);

Or am I misunderstanding your question?