On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > A new release of Metabase was made just yesterday. It provides some
> > features that users were requesting like the ability to customize error
> > handling. It also provides yet another innovating features, which is the
> > SQL REPLACE implementation. This is a statement like SQL INSERT except
> > that if the values of the primary keys match the ones of an existing
> > row, it will update that row instead of inserting a new one. AFAIK, only
> > MySQL provides SQL REPLACE command, but Metabase provides a suitable
>
> *cough* Callling it 'SQL REPLACE' is a bit of a misnomer. It is not
> specified anywhere in the SQL standard. (Like lots of MySQL stuff)
> Chris
We can discuss names, till the cows come home, but basically Manuel
described what he meant. The "replace" functionality is one of the few
things I liked of MySQL when I researched which dB to go with. The fact
that this layer can abstract the functionality is a great point in my
opinion.