On Wednesday 25 June 2003 21:37, Mike Mascari wrote: > Ian Barwick wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 June 2003 20:06, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
(...) > > This kind of query should work; just leave out the "FROM dummy_table" > > bit. (in Oracle it would be "FROM dual"). > > I proposed that same solution 3 years ago. Tom shoots it down: > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=3A4D611 >6.1A613402%40mascari.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DMike%2BMascari%2BINSERT%2 >BNOT%2BEXISTS%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den > > Reuben must be prepared for unique key violation, I'm afraid. And, > despite the optimism in the link, we still don't have savepoints. :-( aha, useful to know. Thanks. Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend