Hello, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > A new release of Metabase was made just yesterday. It provides some > > features that users were requesting like the ability to customize error > > handling. It also provides yet another innovating features, which is the > > SQL REPLACE implementation. This is a statement like SQL INSERT except > > that if the values of the primary keys match the ones of an existing > > row, it will update that row instead of inserting a new one. AFAIK, only > > MySQL provides SQL REPLACE command, but Metabase provides a suitable > > emulation that works the same way using transactions so it works also > > with PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS-SQL server, Informix, Interbase, etc.. > > *cough* Callling it 'SQL REPLACE' is a bit of a misnomer. It is not > specified anywhere in the SQL standard. (Like lots of MySQL stuff) Still it is a good thing (tm). SQL standard is also a bit misnomer because every database vendor ships its own extensions and its own non-standard compliant quirks. My favourite is that Oracle stores empty strings in VARCHAR fields as NULLs. :-) Regards, Manuel Lemos
