Best way to do multi-row insert in Oracle?

Question

I\'m looking for a good way to perform multi-row inserts into an Oracle 9 database. The following works in MySQL but doesn\'t seem to be supported in Oracle.

Answer 1

If you have the values that you want to insert in another table already, then you can Insert from a select statement.

INSERT INTO a_table (column_a, column_b) SELECT column_a, column_b FROM b_table;

Otherwise, you can list a bunch of single row insert statements and submit several queries in bulk to save the time for something that works in both Oracle and MySQL.

@Espo's solution is also a good one that will work in both Oracle and MySQL if your data isn't already in a table.