SQL code to insert multiple rows in ms-access table

Question

I\'m trying to speed up my code and the bottleneck seems to be the individual insert statements to a Jet MDB from outside Access via ODBC. I need to insert 100 rows at a tim

Answer 1

I found an elegant solution within R, (the software I'm working with). The RODBC package has a function sqlSave which allow to append and entire data.frame at once to a table. This works almost twice as fast as individual inserts within a transaction.

library(RODBC)
MDB <- odbcConnectAccess("database.mdb")
sqlSave(channel = MDB, dat = sims, tablename = "tblSimulation", append = TRUE, rownames = FALSE)
odbcClose(MDB)