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  • Thanks for a two part education on MySQL. I now have 'like' for create table, and 'ignore' in my arsenal. Commented Mar 29, 2009 at 10:51
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    Note BTW (comment long after answer due to duplicate linking) that you can just use ALTER IGNORE TABLE ADD UNIQUE(phoneNo), which silently jsut discards the duplicates in the table without having to create another one. Commented Dec 12, 2012 at 23:02