At 21:27 -0500 5/23/02, Andrew Lietzow wrote:
>Dear MySQL wizards,
>I have two tables, call them A and B. The database structure is identical.
>I want the records in B to overwrite the records in (REPLACE INTO) A.
>This is the statement that does NOT work.
>REPLACE INTO a SELECT b.* FROM b WHERE a.field1 = b.field1
>I also tried this with the last the conditional statement reversed. MySQL
>doesn't like my syntax. The field names in A are identical to B.
>TIA for any help.
>The ACL Group, Inc.
The SELECT part has to be a legal SELECT statement, which yours
isn't. (The WHERE part names two tables, but the FROM part names