insert if not exists oracle

Question

I need to be able to run an Oracle query which goes to insert a number of rows, but it also checks to see if a primary key exists and if it does, then it skips that insert.

Answer 1

DECLARE
   tmp NUMBER(3,1);
BEGIN
  SELECT COUNT(content_id) INTO tmp FROM contents WHERE (condition);
  if tmp != 0 then
    INSERT INTO contents VALUES (...);
  else
    INSERT INTO contents VALUES (...);
  end if;
END;

I used the code above. It is long, but, simple and worked for me. Similar, to Micheal's code.