At 20:04 -0800 3/21/03, Todd Cary wrote:
><div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">I would
>like to avoid the necessity of specifying all of the fields -
>instead use the following syntax:
>
>INSERT INTO teachers VALUES
>(1,12345,NULL,'Harry','Smith','707-773-4523',2',...
>
>However, the first field is an autoincrementing field. Will MySQL
>ignore my value and overwrite it with the "auto" value?
No. It will only generate an auto-increment value if you specify NULL or
omit the column value from the statement. In the latter case you
must provide a column list so that MySQL knows which data values go in
which clients.
If you specify an explicit value for the auto-increment column (as you
do above), and the value already exists in the table, you'll get a
duplicate key error, assuming that you've declared it as a PRIMARY KEY
or UNIQUE index.
>
>The next is question is the command line syntax for importing a file
>liek the above? I have never done it and I am using the Linux version
>of MySQL.
I don't understand the question. It appears to defy parsing. :-)
>
>Todd
>
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