Inserting into a mysql table and overwritng any current data

Question

I am inserting some data into a table, but it occasionally clashes with other data in the table (ie. it has the same primary key).
I would like to be able to just over

Answer 1

You can use REPLACE INTO in MySQL to do this.

REPLACE INTO table
SET name = 'Treffynnon'

Answer 2

Just a little cheatsheet.
Mysql has 3 different scenarios for handling unique key duplicates:

If you want to...

• do nothing - use INSERT IGNORE
• delete existing and create new - use REPLACE INTO
• update existing - use ON DUPLICATE UPDATE

Answer 3

You can use replace statement instead of insert. Look at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/replace.html

Answer 4

Look up "on duplicate key update".

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/insert-on-duplicate.html

Answer 5

MySQL has a "INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE" command. You can find it here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/insert-on-duplicate.html

INSERT INTO `table` VALUES ('a', 'b') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `field1`='a', `field2`='b'