To be honest I’m not a big fan of Stored Procedures, At least not in the form they are currently implemented in MySQL 5.0 Only SQL as a Language Which is ancient ugly for algorithmic programming and slow. It is also forces you to use a lot of foreign constructs to “original” MySQL style – [...]
INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE and REPLACE INTO
Jonathan Haddad writes about REPLACE INTO and INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. Really, Why MySQL has both of these, especially both are non ANSI SQL extensions ? The story here seems to be the following – REPLACE INTO existed forever, at least since MySQL 3.22 and was a way to do replace faster and what [...]
Consulting for MySQL
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