Overriding unique indexed values

Question

This is what I\'m doing right now (name is UNIQUE):

SELECT * FROM fruits WHERE name=\'apple\';

Che

Answer 1

You can use the IGNORE feature:

INSERT IGNORE INTO fruits VALUES ('apple')

If there is a key violation, it just skips this value

Answer 2

check out

INSERT IGNORE INTO ...

and

INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE ...

Thes second method is preferred as the IGNORE statement simply causes mysql to issue warning instead of error