I understand everything you said except primary key do i need one I have seen
it before in some fields but have no clue what it is... thanks btw =)
Armando
On Monday 17 September 2001 05:44 pm, you wrote:
> 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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