SQLite - UPSERT *not* INSERT or REPLACE

Question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsert

Insert Update stored proc on SQL Server

Is there some clever way to do this in SQLite that I have not thought of?

Answer 1

Expanding on Aristotle’s answer you can SELECT from a dummy 'singleton' table (a table of your own creation with a single row). This avoids some duplication.

I've also kept the example portable across MySQL and SQLite and used a 'date_added' column as an example of how you could set a column only the first time.

 REPLACE INTO page (
   id,
   name,
   title,
   content,
   author,
   date_added)
 SELECT
   old.id,
   "about",
   "About this site",
   old.content,
   42,
   IFNULL(old.date_added,"21/05/2013")
 FROM singleton
 LEFT JOIN page AS old ON old.name = "about";