title: MyBatis Batch Insert/Update For Oracle
body: <p>I've recently started learning to use myBatis.I am now facing such a scenario, I need to constantly fetch a new list of Objects through WebService, then for this list, I need to insert/update each object into the oracle DB table through myBatis.</p>
  
  <p>The tricky part is, I cannot simply do a batch insert every time, because some of the objects might already exist in DB, for these records, I need to update the fields of them instead of a new insertion.</p>
  
  <p>My current solution might be very stupid, using Java, build the list of Object from webservice, loop through each of them, do a myBatis select, if it is not a null(already exists in the db), then do a myBatis update; otherwise, do a myBatis insert for this new object.</p>
  
  <p>The function is achieved. But my technical lead says it is very low-efficient, since doing a for loop using Java and insert/update one by one will consume a lot of system resource. He advised me to do batch insert using myBatis by passing a list of objects in.</p>
  
  <p>Batch insertion in myBatis is straightforward, however, since I am not purely inserting(for existing records I need to do update), I don't think batch insert is appropriate here. I've googled a while for this, and realized maybe I will need to use "merge" instead of "insert" (for Oracle).</p>
  
  <p>The examples I googled out for merge in myBatis is only for one object, not in a batch. Thus I want to find out whether experts could offer me some examples on how to do a batch-merge in MyBatis( The correct way to write a Mapper)?</p>