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From Jeremy Cowgar
Subject How to tell why an insert failed?
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Msg-id 1025037401.2149.1.camel@dsktop
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In C I would like to tell if an insert failed and why. In particular if
it failed because of a duplicate value in a field marked unique.

Can this be done, how? If not, is their a work around besides querying
each unique field for a dup?

Thanks,

Jeremy

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