Re: Fw: problem about bulk insertion

2003-03-19 Thread gerald_clark
How do you know these possibly duplicate records are not already in the table? What is wrong with adding a unique index on (fld2,fld3) ? Hu Qinan wrote: >Dear all, > >I intend to write a large volume of records to a table tbl. > >tbl: >fld1, int unsigned not null auto_increment primary key, >fl

Re: Fw: problem about bulk insertion

2003-03-18 Thread Daniel Kasak
Hu Qinan wrote: >Dear all, > >I intend to write a large volume of records to a table tbl. > >tbl: >fld1, int unsigned not null auto_increment primary key, >fld2, text >fld3, text > >The combination of (fld2, fld3) should be be unique, so I need to check for >duplicates every time when a record