Oracle Equivalent to MySQL INSERT IGNORE?

Question

I need to update a query so that it checks that a duplicate entry does not exist before insertion. In MySQL I can just use INSERT IGNORE so that if a duplicate record is fo

Answer 1

Another variant

Insert into my_table (student_id, group_id)
select distinct p.studentid, g.groupid 
from person p, group g
where NOT EXISTS (select 1
                 from my_table a
                 where a.student_id = p.studentid
                 and a.group_id = g.groupid)

or you could do

Insert into my_table (student_id, group_id)
select distinct p.studentid, g.groupid 
from person p, group g
MINUS
select student_id, group_id
from my_table