On Duplicate Key Update same as insert

I’ve searched around but didn’t find if it’s possible.

I’ve this MySQL query:

INSERT INTO table (id,a,b,c,d,e,f,g) VALUES (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Field id has a “unique index”, so there can’t be two of them. Now if the same id is already present in the database, I’d like to update it. But do I really have to specify all these field again, like:

INSERT INTO table (id,a,b,c,d,e,f,g) VALUES (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) 
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=2,b=3,c=4,d=5,e=6,f=7,g=8

Or:

INSERT INTO table (id,a,b,c,d,e,f,g) VALUES (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) 
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE a=VALUES(a),b=VALUES(b),c=VALUES(c),d=VALUES(d),e=VALUES(e),f=VALUES(f),g=VALUES(g)

I’ve specified everything already in the insert…

A extra note, I’d like to use the work around to get the ID to!

id=LAST_INSERT_ID(id)

I hope somebody can tell me what the most efficient way is.

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