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How to bulk insert from JS client?

See original GitHub issue

Today the SurrealQL query language supports multiple-insert in a single statement as follows:

INSERT INTO company (name, founded) VALUES ('Acme Inc.', '1967-05-03'), ('Apple Inc.', '1976-04-01');

However, the JS client currently only provides db.create(), which supports a single record at at a time.

What is the best way to bulk insert when using the JS (Deno / Node / Bun) client? Should one use the raw db.query() command? If so, what is the expected syntax?

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Created 10 months ago
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Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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fritzbluecommented, Dec 1, 2022

SQL injections don’t exist with surrealdb

This type of thinking is a very slippery slope. Security should never be assumed (especially with one of the top 10 web application security risks). I advocate for adding an explicit bulk insert option to the JS client so that string interpolation is not required.

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evbocommented, Dec 2, 2022

@fritzblue +1 but actually bulk loading feature for ALL client APIs is currently missing. Would be great to have a load CSV/JSON/TEXT/BINARY option like all other RDBMS and many graph dbs too (Neo4j, Janus, etc.).

Would you consider broadening the title of this issue to just be “How to bulk insert from client”?

EDIT: Whoops just noticed this is the js repo… sorry and thanks @mathe42 for pointing that out

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