Re: INSERT WHERE NOT EXISTS

On Wednesday 25 June 2003 21:37, Mike Mascari wrote:
> Ian Barwick wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 June 2003 20:06, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

(...)
> > This kind of query should work; just leave out the "FROM dummy_table"
> > bit. (in Oracle it would be "FROM dual").
>
> I proposed that same solution 3 years ago. Tom shoots it down:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=3A4D611
>6.1A613402%40mascari.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DMike%2BMascari%2BINSERT%2
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> Reuben must be prepared for unique key violation, I'm afraid. And,
> despite the optimism in the link, we still don't have savepoints. :-(

aha, useful to know. Thanks.

Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net