On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nick, > Batch INSERTs are great for people looking to for performance tweaks. > Serial INSERT statements within the iteration loop keeps things simple for > those just starting out. > True, of course... and now that I think about it, double-byte characters in the midst of a failing multi insert can be hard to figure out if you don't know what you're doing. Speaking of which, anybody who is getting started in this sort of thing - setting the default character set in MySQL to UTF-8 (before creating tables!) will help avoid a lot of confusion and headaches that drove me slightly nuts and I'm far from a newbie. Nick
