Bryan White wrote:
>
> I have a table with a unique index. When I go to insert a new value into
> the table my code does not know if the record is already there. To me there
> are two choices:
>
> 1) Do a select for the record and insert only if not found.
>
> 2) Do a blind insert and relay on the unique index to fail the insert if
> there is a duplicate.
3) Use a sequence to generate unique indicies for you?
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