Fast bulk loading to the database

Whenever you have to insert a big amount of data consider using not usual 'Insert Into', but the load command. For MySQL and Oracle it's 'Load Data Infile'. Here is the small example how to import usual CSV file with the header to MySQL:

load data local infile 'load.csv'
into table someTable
character set utf8 
fields terminated by ',' 
optionally enclosed by '"'
lines terminated by '\n'
ignore 1 lines

For more information view official documentation