RE: [PHP-DB] Spot the deliberate mistake...

From: Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:28:38 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Spot the deliberate mistake...
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On Thursday, December 16, 2004, at 05:21PM, Norland, Martin <Martin.Norland@STJUDE.ORG> wrote: >"INSERT INTO foobar2 SET part_no='$data[0]', >foo_no='$data[1]', >alt_no='$data[2]', descript='$data[3]', price='$data[4]', >unit_sale='$data[5]', unit_issue='$data[6]', weight='$data[7]', >brand='$data[8]', nla_tag='0' ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE;" > >It's implicit that you use the same data regardless, you're saying "if >it's already there, just do an update statement with the data already >provided". If I try that it returns: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE' at line 1 so I guess something doesn't work there. I also tried it with and without the line ending and it didn't work either way :). -- Mark Benson http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson

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