I parallel posted this to MySQL's forum and it was suggested that I was looking for the MySQL syntax "INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE".

I'd never heard of such a thing and a brief google search showed it is probably what I'm looking for (I'm a pretty big believer that with reasonable usage, the db is usually going to be more efficient that anything I write). I spent hours searching Google for options on what I was seeing: "MySQL primary key violation on insert" and got no where.

--Jimbus aka Jim Babcock
Wireless Data Engineer and Geek Wannabe
jim-dot-babcock-at-usa-dot-com

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