speters,
Thursday, September 19, 2002, 10:55:41 PM, you wrote:

samdc> If i use a replace query, and there isn't an error, then either
samdc> a new row was inserted, or an existing row was updated.

samdc> The primary key in the table i'm replacing to is defined as
samdc> mprid int not null auto_increment primary key

samdc> whether an insert or update actually occurs, i want to get the value of 
samdc> mprid that was affected.

samdc> if it's a new row, i assume i can use select last_insert_id()
samdc> but if its an update, will that work?

LAST_INSERT_ID() will return you correct value only if you insert NULL
or 0 into auto_increment field:
     http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Miscellaneous_functions.html

If you insert NULL or 0 why do you use REPLACE? If you insert any
other values, you should know what you inserted, shouldn't you?


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