INSERT VALUES WHERE NOT EXISTS

Question

OK so I\'m trying to improve my asp data entry page to ensure that the entry going into my data table is unique.

So in this table I have SoftwareName and SoftwareTyp

Answer 1

There is a great solution for this problem ,You can use the Merge Keyword of Sql

Merge MyTargetTable hba
USING (SELECT Id = 8, Name = 'Product Listing Message') temp 
ON temp.Id = hba.Id
WHEN NOT matched THEN 
INSERT (Id, Name) VALUES (temp.Id, temp.Name);

You can check this before following, below is the sample

IF OBJECT_ID ('dbo.TargetTable') IS NOT NULL
    DROP TABLE dbo.TargetTable
GO

CREATE TABLE dbo.TargetTable
    (
    Id   INT NOT NULL,
    Name VARCHAR (255) NOT NULL,
    CONSTRAINT PK_TargetTable PRIMARY KEY (Id)
    )
GO



INSERT INTO dbo.TargetTable (Name)
VALUES ('Unknown')
GO

INSERT INTO dbo.TargetTable (Name)
VALUES ('Mapping')
GO

INSERT INTO dbo.TargetTable (Name)
VALUES ('Update')
GO

INSERT INTO dbo.TargetTable (Name)
VALUES ('Message')
GO

INSERT INTO dbo.TargetTable (Name)
VALUES ('Switch')
GO

INSERT INTO dbo.TargetTable (Name)
VALUES ('Unmatched')
GO

INSERT INTO dbo.TargetTable (Name)
VALUES ('ProductMessage')
GO


Merge MyTargetTable hba
USING (SELECT Id = 8, Name = 'Listing Message') temp 
ON temp.Id = hba.Id
WHEN NOT matched THEN 
INSERT (Id, Name) VALUES (temp.Id, temp.Name);