Re: Insert only if not found

wow thanks. i managed to paste it to fit my code..
yeahhhh ^____^

Shavonne Wijesinghe
www.studioform.it

----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
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Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Insert only if not found

> am Thu, dem 05.04.2007, um 10:38:21 +0200 mailte Shavonne Marietta
> Wijesinghe folgendes:
>> Hello everyone..
>>
>> Here is the result of my Insert. and also the insert works ok.
>>
>> INSERT INTO MOD48_02 (ID, TE_INDI, TE_COGNOME, TE_NOME, TE_SESSO,
>> TE_ATTNASC,
>> TE_LUONASC, TE_DTNASC, TE_PROVSTATO, TE_PROV, TE_PATERNITA, TE_RICHIESTA,
>> USERNAME, DATE_INSERTED, TIME_INSERTED) VALUES ('127001200745101033',
>> 'england', 'bloom', 'orlando', 'M', 'ww', 'florida', '05/06/1984',
>> 'america',
>> 'UK', 'xx', 'no', 'demo', '05/04/2007', '10.10.33');
>> But before i insert this record i want to check if the it hasn't been
>> inserted
>> before. I want to use the following fields as the riefferent. TE_COGNOME,
>> TE_NOME, TE_SESSO, TE_DTNASC
>>
>> And if there is no record to match those 4 fields i want to insert it
>> else just
>> a message saying that the record has been inserted b4.
>>
>> any idea to start with?
>
> Yes, read this:
> http://ads.wars-nicht.de/blog/archives/11-Avoid-Unique-Key-violation.html
>
>
> I think, you can change this for your request.
> (but without the message, if you really need this message, you should use
> a function and RAISE a NOTICE as the message)
>
>
> Andreas
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