Insert into a MySQL table or update if exists

I want to add a row to a database table, but if a row exists with the same unique key I want to update the row.

For example:

INSERT INTO table_name (ID, NAME, AGE) VALUES(1, "A", 19);

Let’s say the unique key is ID, and in my Database, there is a row with ID = 1. In that case, I want to update that row with these values. Normally this gives an error.
If I use INSERT IGNORE it will ignore the error, but it still won’t update.


Use INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE

QUERY:

INSERT INTO table (id, name, age) VALUES(1, "A", 19) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE    
name="A", age=19

Check out REPLACE

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replace.html

REPLACE into table (id, name, age) values(1, "A", 19)

When using batch insert use the following syntax:

INSERT INTO TABLE (id, name, age) VALUES (1, "A", 19), (2, "B", 17), (3, "C", 22)
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE
    name = VALUES (name),
    ...

Any of these solution will work regarding your question:

INSERT IGNORE INTO table (id, name, age) VALUES (1, "A", 19);

or

INSERT INTO TABLE (id, name, age) VALUES(1, "A", 19) 
    ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE NAME = "A", AGE = 19;  

or

REPLACE INTO table (id, name, age) VALUES(1, "A", 19);

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Try this out:

INSERT INTO table (id, name, age) VALUES (1, 'A', 19) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE id = id + 1;

Hope this helps.