Dale Johnson wrote:
>
> I know we're not in the business of copying mySQL,
> but the REPLACE INTO table (...) values (...) could be
> a useful semantic. This is a combination INSERT or
> UPDATE statement. For one thing, it is atomic, and
> easier to work with at the application level. Also
> if the application doesn't care about previous values,
> then execution has fewer locking issues and race
> conditions.
>
> comments?
>
> Dale Johnson
I don't know if it is standard SQL, but it will save hundreds of lines of code
in applications everywhere. I LOVE the idea. I just finished writing a database
merge/update program which could have been made much easier to write with this
syntax.
