Profiling

Why is is data load with LOAD DATA INFILE so much faster?

Probably the answer to this question is already known. But we want to prove it and by the way learn to deal with oprofile.

For the test MySQL 5.0.28 was used and 100k rows were loaded into a table sales which looks as follows:

CREATE TABLE sales (
    sales_id       INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY
  , product_name   VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL
  , product_price  DECIMAL(8,2) NOT NULL
  , product_amount SMALLINT     NOT NULL
) ENGINE = …

Probably the answer to this question is already known. But we want to prove it and by the way learn to deal with MySQL and oprofile.