Jaime Casanova Wrote:
> But MERGE isn't REPLACE...
>
> REPLACE will delete old records to insert new ones; MERGE try
> to insert and if the record exists then can UPDATE just a few
> values, maybe incrementing them with a value (all the
> calculation are doing by the MERGE)
That sounds like MySQL's 'INSERT INTO ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE',
which they recommend over REPLACE anyways.
