What happens if Simultaneous Insertion query with same table

Databases
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i want to know what happens if there is a Insertion query in two function running in parallel or if query is inside a foreach loop…

> one more thing is my table has a AUTO INC field, so if two insertion query runs on same table at the same time , then what happens ? will it give error?
how to avoid any errors and do dis successfully?

Thanks

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the database engine will never execute them at the same time

one will go ahead, the other will wait until the one is finished

by the way, query inside a foreach loop is inefficient, there’s usually a better way

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actually im trying to do my task in parallel in order to increase speed…
d sql part, i have put some code inside a function, [in between these quries come]…
and im calling the function via foreach loop to do the work in parallel…

and r u sure about it?
bcause this table contains some pattern,
>when finds a pattern, it first searches the table if that pattern already exist, only when its not present it runs the insertion query and inserts that pattern…

Thanks

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so you’re doing a SELECT and then an INSERT, right?

that’s two sql calls

better to do just one sql call, and you improve performance by 100%

do the INSERT, and let the database tell you when it fails due to duplicate key

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ya i thought somwat similar but will it not cause any error when it encounters a duplicate key ???

and secondly i am doin insert because if the pattern exists in the table then, it will that particular records pattern no and store it in a var, this info will be used in the later part of the code …

>and wat were u telling abt the foreach loop, is it ok considering the situation ?

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yes, of course

your application code would catch the error from the database, and generate a user-friendly error message exactly like the error message you currently produce when you do the SELECT and find the entry that you want to insert already exists

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and how can we achieve that wen coding ?
im using php, mysql…
u didnt tell about the foreach loop…

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i dunno, man, i don’t do php

you should not do it if possible

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The place to start is with the SQL for the insert.

After the call the first thing you need to test for is if the SQL failed with a duplicate key.

Rearrange the way that the code works to do away with the inefficient foreach. If you do need a loop then move the SQL calls outside the loop so that the loop is only running on PHP variables that have already been loaded from the database call.

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the foreach is not being used now… there is only one foreach now, which takes the contents frm array,…
however the sql is inside a few for loops, where i dnt think most of the loops can be avoided…
anyway thanks a lot guys…