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

INSERT INTO schema.myFoo ( primary_key        , value1          , value2         )
                         SELECT 'bar1' AS primary_key ,'baz1' AS value1 ,'bat1' AS value2 FROM DUAL WHERE (SELECT 1 AS value FROM schema.myFoo WHERE LOWER(primary_key) ='bar1' AND ROWNUM=1) is null;