On Sep 17, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Alexander J. Kozlovsky wrote:

I want to avoid doing a two step process outside the db... I want to
insert a row only if it doesn't exist already.

IMHO, if you table T1 have a unique key, you may do this

INSERT OR IGNORE T1 VALUES(1, 2, 3);



ahhh! the conflict algorithm. Thanks for drawing my attention to it... it should do the trick.


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Puneet Kishor

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