MySQL on duplicate key update

Question

If I have query like this, how can I refer to values I have already given in update statement, so that I don\'t need to insert same data to query again? Example I would like

Answer 1

In PHP I do this to solve the issue:

$fields = "a = 1, b = 2, c = 3";
$sql = "INSERT INTO some_table SET id = $id, $fields ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE $fields";
mysql_query($sql);

Answer 2

This should work and is a little more elegant:

INSERT INTO TABLENAME(col1, col2) 
VALUES ('xxx', 'yyy') 
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE col1 = VALUES(col1)

Note that you don't need to update the primary key part of the row. We know that's the same because there was a collision.