From: Chris W
Date: March 2 2010 5:35pm
Subject: Re: redirecting query output?
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I'm not sure this is the best solution, but whenever I am inserting a 
lot of records with the possibility of some of those records already 
existing and I have no reason to update the existing records with new 
data, I use 'INSERT IGNORE'.  I'm not sure if that will 'ignore' other 
errors that you may want to show.  I would read up about it here....

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/insert.html


Richard Reina wrote:
> I have a perl script that periodically reads and enters (via perl->DBI parsed system output (about received faxes) into a table.  Since the old output is repeated I have put, when creating the table, the UNIQUE key on the field of the faxname, which is always different (something like fax000007879.tif) 
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> Every time the script is run many of the old faxes that have already been entered into the table are still on the server (as I would like them to be).  As a result MySQL via execute() dutifully warns about all the duplicate errors. Is there anyway to redirect that output so the it does not appear as standard output? Or is it a bad idea to do so and should I being doing a different sort ow query altogether?
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> Thanks,
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> Richard
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