{"id":1292,"date":"2008-12-10T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T06:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2009-02-21T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T03:33:23","slug":"stewart-learns-sql-oddities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/stewart-learns-sql-oddities\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart learns SQL oddities&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would you expect the following to fail with?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">CREATE TABLE t1 (a int, b int);<br \/>\ninsert into t1 values (100,100);<br \/>\nCREATE TEMPORARY TABLE t2 (a int, b int, primary key (a));<br \/>\nBEGIN;<br \/>\nINSERT INTO t2 values(100,100);<br \/>\nCREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS t2 (primary key (a)) select * from t1;<\/p>\n<p>If you answered ER_DUP_ENTRY then you are correct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/refman\/5.0\/en\/create-table.html\">From the manual<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"note\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;\">\n<h3 class=\"title\">Note<\/h3>\n<p>If you use <code class=\"literal\">IF NOT EXISTS<\/code> in a <code class=\"literal\">CREATE         TABLE ... SELECT<\/code> statement, any rows selected by the         <a title=\"12.2.8.\u00c2\u00a0SELECT Syntax\" href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/refman\/5.0\/en\/select.html\"><code class=\"literal\">SELECT<\/code><\/a> part are inserted         regardless of whether the table already exists.<\/div>\n<p>Does anybody else find this behaviour &#8220;interesting&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you expect the following to fail with? CREATE TABLE t1 (a int, b int); insert into t1 values (100,100); CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE t2 (a int, b int, primary key (a)); BEGIN; INSERT INTO t2 values(100,100); CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/stewart-learns-sql-oddities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[70,628,109],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-drizzle","tag-mysql","tag-sql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-kQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2307,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/01\/alter-table-rename-rename-rename\/","url_meta":{"origin":1292,"position":0},"title":"ALTER TABLE RENAME RENAME RENAME","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2011-03-01","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a nice challenge for you. 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