Can you use REPLACE? Kelley
Randy Chrismon wrote: > Please tell me it ain't so... > > I am writing a Lotus Nots agent to feed data directly into a MySQL > table. The agent needs to either insert a new record or update an > existing record depending on whether a document in Nots is new or > updated. Because this app may be ported over to a DB2 server, I am > avoiding the "on duplicate key update" option. So, I intended to test > for the existence of a MySQL record and, depending on the result, > prepend either "Update my_table" to a build SQL string, or prepend > "Insert into table". And then I read the documentation... It looks > like Update MUST use the set column_1=new_value1, > column_2=new_value2, > etc. format. I was hoping to do something like "update my_table > values(newValue1, newValue2...)" making sure to have a value or > holder > for each column. In other words, I was expecting insert and update to > look pretty much the same except for the prefix and a where clause on > the end of the update. Am I right that I can't do this?? > > Thanks. > Randy > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
