is there a maximum number of inserts that can be run in a batch sql script?

I have a series of simple "Insert INTO" type statements but after running about 3 or 4 of them the script stops and i get empty sets when i try selecting from the appropriate tables....aside from my specific code...i wonder whether there is an ideal way of running multiple insert type queries.

Right now i just开发者_StackOverflow中文版 have a txt file saved as a.sql with normal sql commands separated by ";"

No, there is not. however, if it stops after 3 or 4 inserts, it's a good bet there's an error in the 3rd or 4th insert. Depending on which SQL engine you use, there are different ways of making it report errors during and after operations.

Additionally, if you have lots of inserts, it's a good idea to wrap them inside a transaction - this basically buffers all the insert commands until it sees the end command for the transaction, and then commit everything to your table. That way, if something goes wrong, your database doesn't get polluted with data that needs to first be deleted again. More importantly, every insert without a transaction counts as a single transaction, which makes them really slow - Doing 100 inserts inside a transaction can be as fast as doing two or three normal inserts.

Maximum Capacity Specifications for SQL Server

Max Batch size = 65,536 * Network Packet Size

However I doubt that Max Batch size is your problem.