in reply to Testing to INSERT or UPDATE MySQL record

In most databases, you would have to
  1. LOCK the tables
  2. SELECT
  3. determine whether to UPDATE or INSERT
  4. Do the action
  5. UNLOCK the tables

MySQL has REPLACE, which does that for you atomically.

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