<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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