From 86ac76a0dd0717da19b666b1910f7c89937f9160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:23:15 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Wrap table update in transaction

Consolidating the table update into a single database transaction improves performance (on my instance approx 35%, 1000000 line insert 155 secs -> 100 secs)
---
 populate.sql | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/populate.sql b/populate.sql
index b356778..a6efb86 100644
--- a/populate.sql
+++ b/populate.sql
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ set @func_query = CONCAT( @func_query , ";" );
         END IF;
 SET i=in_rows;
 SET batch_size=500;
+START TRANSACTION;
 populate :loop
         WHILE (i>batch_size) DO
           PREPARE t_stmt FROM @func_query;
@@ -87,6 +88,7 @@ SET @func_query=concat("INSERT INTO ", in_db,".",in_table," VALUES (",func_query
         END WHILE;
 LEAVE populate;
 END LOOP populate;
+COMMIT;
 SELECT "Kedar Vaijanapurkar" AS "Developed by";
 END
 $$