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Re: exist
Posted by: Jonathan Stephens
Date: June 04, 2005 10:40AM

SELECT COUNT(*) > 0 FROM tablename WHERE username='$username';

will return 1 (true) if there are any records in the table named 'mytable' where the username is $username and 0 (false) if there aren't.

Jon Stephens
MySQL Documentation Team @ Oracle

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