On 19-May-01 Dave Carter wrote:
> I'm converting an Access db to mySQL, and Access allows users to Insert
> Records into a table AND call them as well in the FROM clause. This is
> illeagal in ANSI SQL however and therefore illeagal in mySQL, but I don't
> know really how to get around it. How can I insert only new records that
> aren't already in a table, without calling the table first? Can this be done
> in SQL?
>
INSERT IGNORE
then SELECT ...
Regards,
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Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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