Hi,

Look at REPLACE statement.

Regards
-- 
Joseph Bueno

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> According to the manual, if INSERT IGNORE finds a row already present in
> the table, it does not update the row with the new data. How can I get the
> opposite behaviour? In my case, there shouldn't be a record with the unique
> ID I am inserting. But if there is, my recovery behaviour is to delete the
> old one and then do the insert again - I don't care what the old data was,
> my new data is correct for the new situation. Can I get MySQL to do that
> for me?
> 
>       Alec Cawley
> 


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