IF NOT EXISTS in trigger

Question

I have tow tables concept_access and concept_access_log. I want to create a trigger that works every time something is deleted from concept_access, check if there is similar

Answer 1

DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS before_delete_concept_access;
DELIMITER //
CREATE TRIGGER before_delete_concept_access
    BEFORE DELETE ON `concept_access` FOR EACH ROW
    BEGIN
        IF (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM concept_access_log WHERE map=OLD.map 
                          AND accesstype=OLD.accesstype AND startdate=OLD.startdate AND stopdate=OLD.stopdate) = 0 THEN
            INSERT INTO concept_access_log (map, accesstype, startdate, stopdate)
            VALUES (OLD.map, OLD.accesstype, OLD.startdate, OLD.stopdate);
        END IF;
    END//
DELIMITER ;

I am not using not exists, just test if the match count greater than 0

your code runs well on my machine, what's your MySQL version?

mysql> select version();
+------------+
| version()  |
+------------+
| 5.1.56-log |
+------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)