On Thursday 19 December 2002 19:19, Andrew Kuebler wrote:
> When I run an INSERT. SELECT query and I am inserting the records into a
> new table that has a UNIQUE key, the statement will fail as soon as it
> hits a "Duplicate entry" error. No further entries will be inserted. The
> only way I know to get around this is to pull the entire column(s) into
> memory and insert them back in one by one with a repeating INSERT
> statement. Can anyone tell me the "easy" way to do this? (I assume there
> must be a better way) Thanks!
Use IGNORE keyword in INSERT .. SELECT statement:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/INSERT_SELECT.html
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