On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, 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 > > *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) > Chris We can discuss names, till the cows come home, but basically Manuel described what he meant. The "replace" functionality is one of the few things I liked of MySQL when I researched which dB to go with. The fact that this layer can abstract the functionality is a great point in my opinion.
