At 5:34 PM -0700 9/17/01, Armando Cerna wrote:
>I need to insert a phone number into a table. I would do this with the
>insert command except I think that it would create duplicate entries even
>though they are exactly the same is there a way that I can have it not enter
>the data if it exists already
INSERT IGNORE
will ignore the new record if it duplicates an existing record on
a primary key value.
It's in the manual:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/N/INSERT.html
>
>TIA
>Armando
>
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