Updating multiple rows with different values

Question

I got this table in my MySQL database, 'users'. It has the fields 'id' and 'value'.

Now, I want to update lots of rows in this table with a single SQL query, but many rows should get a different value. Currently, I'm using this:

UPDATE users
    SET value = CASE id
        WHEN 1 THEN 53
        WHEN 2 THEN 65
        WHEN 3 THEN 47
        WHEN 4 THEN 53
        WHEN 5 THEN 47
    END
WHERE id IN (1,2,3,4,5)

This works. But I feel I could do some optimization since there are only about 3 or 4 different values I'm assigning to the rows. As you can see, right now these are 47, 53 and 65. Is there a way I can update all rows that get the same value simultaneously within the same query? Or, is there another way I can optimize this?

Solution 1

Assuming id is unique or primary...

insert into users 
  (id,value) 
VALUES 
  (1,53),(2,65),(3,47),(4,53),(5,47)
on duplicate key update
value=VALUES(value)

Solution 2

I would just do this with a few different UPDATE statements.

UPDATE users
    SET value = 53
WHERE id = 1;


UPDATE users
    SET value = 65
WHERE id = 2;

...

This seems simplest if you only have 5 or 6 values to set on multiple rows each. Or is there some specific reason that you need to do this in one query?

Comments

[Matmarbon]

I don't know why this got so few votes. It's perfect!