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petek
Posting Yak Master

192 Posts

Posted - 2008-08-26 : 10:11:39

Hiya all,

i cannot get my insert staement to work what i need to do is insert data into a table but need to make sure the row does not already exist.

Kind Regards

Pete.

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2008-08-26 : 10:14:25

use NOT EXISTS


insert into table1(pk, col1, col2 . . .)
select 100, 200, 300, . . . 
where  not exists (select * from table1 x where x.pk = 100)

KH
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