<quote who="Rhino"> > Voytek Eymont wrote: > Are you hoping to do all that you want - copy rows, update rows and > create new rows - in a single SQL statement? Because if that's what you > want, I don't think it's possible. Unless someone has come up with some > new tricks, you can't insert a new record and update an existing one > within the same SQL statement. > > If you want to do it via several SQL statements, each part of what you > want should be possible via different statements in a script where you can > use the script itself to help with the update logic. If you want to do the > updates from the command line only and won't consider a program, I don't > know how to do it. > > I should point out that I'm quite fluent in SQL and have been writing it > for a long time. I haven't used MySQL in a few years now but I'm still on > the mailing list and your question caught my eye.
Rhino, thanks a script would be great, if you can help with it, I'd be grateful. I'm not sure where/how to start, the username is a primary index. or do I run a dump, then, work some script over dump, and, re-import ? -- Voytek -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
