MySQL INSERT INTO WHERE NOT EXIST

Question

I will like to insert into same table if the ip_address for the product_id wasn\'t exist but preferably not to create two separate query. How can I achieve it?

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Answer 1

You can either use INSERT IGNORE or REPLACE or INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE ...

Each requires you to have a unique constraint on product_id, ip_address

INSERT IGNORE

INSERT IGNORE INTO products VALUES (null, 111, '8.8.8.8')

will ignore the insert, if entry already exists.

REPLACE

REPLACE INTO products VALUES (null, 111, '8.8.8.8')

will perform a delete plus a new insert.

INSERT ... UPDATE

INSERT INTO products VALUES (null, 111, '8.8.8.8')
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE products SET last_modified = NOW()

Will try to insert and if that fails update the existing record.

In your case I think you should be fine with INSERT IGNORE, however If you want to change other values if the record already exists, INSERT ... UPDATE ... should work well.

I generally would not recommend to use REPLACE unless you really want a DELETE FROM table WHERE ... plus INSERT INTO TABLE ...

Update

This requires (for this example) a unique index for the combination product, ip_address. You can achive this with

ALTER TABLE products
ADD UNIQUE INDEX `UIDX_PRODUCT__IP_ADRESS`(product, ipaddress);