SQL Server Insert if not exists

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I want to insert data into my table  but insert only data that doesn t already exist in my database   Here is my code   ALTER PROCEDURE  dbo   EmailsRecebidosInsert       DE nvarchar 50        ASSUNTO nvarchar 50        DATA nvarchar 30    AS BEGIN    INSERT INTO EmailsRecebidos  De  Assunto  Data     VALUES    DE    ASSUNTO    DATA     WHERE NOT EXISTS   SELECT   FROM EmailsRecebidos                     WHERE De     DE                    AND Assunto     ASSUNTO                    AND Data     DATA   END   And the error is       Msg 156  Level 15  State 1  Procedure EmailsRecebidosInsert  Line 11   Incorrect syntax near the keyword  WHERE

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You could use the GO command  That will restart the execution of SQL statements after an error  In my case I have a few 1000 INSERT statements  where a handful of those records already exist in the database  I just don t know which ones  I found that after processing a few 100  execution just stops with an error message that it can t INSERT as the record already exists  Quite annoying  but putting a GO solved this  It may not be the fastest solution  but speed was not my problem   GO INSERT INTO mytable  C1 C2 C3  VALUES 1 2 3  GO INSERT INTO mytable  C1 C2 C3  VALUES 4 5 6   etc

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Try below code  ALTER PROCEDURE  dbo   EmailsRecebidosInsert       DE nvarchar 50        ASSUNTO nvarchar 50        DATA nvarchar 30    AS BEGIN    INSERT INTO EmailsRecebidos  De  Assunto  Data     select   DE    ASSUNTO    DATA    EXCEPT    SELECT De  Assunto  Data from EmailsRecebidos END

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The INSERT command doesn t have a WHERE clause - you ll have to write it like this   ALTER PROCEDURE  dbo   EmailsRecebidosInsert       DE nvarchar 50        ASSUNTO nvarchar 50        DATA nvarchar 30    AS BEGIN    IF NOT EXISTS  SELECT   FROM EmailsRecebidos                     WHERE De     DE                    AND Assunto     ASSUNTO                    AND Data     DATA     BEGIN        INSERT INTO EmailsRecebidos  De  Assunto  Data         VALUES    DE    ASSUNTO    DATA     END END

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If your clustered index consist from only those fields than the simple  fast and reliable option is to use IGNORE DUP KEY If you create the Clustered index with IGNORE DUP KEY ON Than you can just use  INSERT INTO EmailsRecebidos  De  Assunto  Data  VALUES    DE    ASSUNTO    DATA   This should be safe in all cases

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Different SQL  same principle  Only insert if the clause in where not exists fails   INSERT INTO FX USDJPY              PriceDate               PriceOpen               PriceLow               PriceHigh               PriceClose               TradingVolume               TimeFrame      SELECT  2014-12-26 22 00              120 369000000000             118 864000000000             120 742000000000             120 494000000000             86513              W      WHERE NOT EXISTS          SELECT 1          FROM FX USDJPY          WHERE PriceDate    2014-12-26 22 00             AND TimeFrame    W

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I did the same thing with SQL Server 2012 and it worked  Insert into  table1 With  ROWLOCK   Id  studentId  name  SELECT  18769    2    Alex  WHERE not exists  select   from  table1 where Id    18769  and studentId    2

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instead of below Code   BEGIN    INSERT INTO EmailsRecebidos  De  Assunto  Data     VALUES    DE    ASSUNTO    DATA     WHERE NOT EXISTS   SELECT   FROM EmailsRecebidos                     WHERE De     DE                    AND Assunto     ASSUNTO                    AND Data     DATA   END   replace with   BEGIN    IF NOT EXISTS  SELECT   FROM EmailsRecebidos                     WHERE De     DE                    AND Assunto     ASSUNTO                    AND Data     DATA     BEGIN        INSERT INTO EmailsRecebidos  De  Assunto  Data         VALUES    DE    ASSUNTO    DATA     END END   Updated    thanks to  Marc Durdin for pointing   Note that under high load  this will still sometimes fail  because a second connection can pass the IF NOT EXISTS test before the first connection executes the INSERT  i e  a race condition  See stackoverflow com a 3791506 1836776 for a good answer on why even wrapping in a transaction doesn t solve this

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Depending on your version  2012   of SQL Server aside from the IF EXISTS you can also use MERGE like so   ALTER PROCEDURE  dbo   EmailsRecebidosInsert          DE nvarchar 50          ASSUNTO nvarchar 50          DATA nvarchar 30   AS BEGIN     MERGE  dbo   EmailsRecebidos   Target      USING  VALUES    DE    ASSUNTO    DATA    Source   De    Assunto    Data            ON  Target   De     Source   De  AND  Target   Assunto     Source   Assunto  AND  Target   Data     Source   Data       WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN         INSERT   De    Assunto    Data           VALUES   Source   De    Source   Assunto    Source   Data    END

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As explained in below code  Execute below queries and verify yourself   CREATE TABLE  table name       id  int 11  NOT NULL auto increment     name  varchar 255  NOT NULL     address  varchar 255  NOT NULL     tele  varchar 255  NOT NULL    PRIMARY KEY    id     ENGINE InnoDB    Insert a record   INSERT INTO table name  name  address  tele  SELECT   FROM  SELECT  Nazir    Kolkata    033   AS tmp WHERE NOT EXISTS       SELECT name FROM table name WHERE name    Nazir    LIMIT 1  Query OK  1 row affected  0 00 sec  Records  1 Duplicates  0 Warnings  0  SELECT   FROM  table name     ---- -------- ----------- ------    id   name     address     tele    ---- -------- ----------- ------     1   Nazir    Kolkata     033     ---- -------- ----------- ------    Now  try to insert the same record again   INSERT INTO table name  name  address  tele  SELECT   FROM  SELECT  Nazir    Kolkata    033   AS tmp WHERE NOT EXISTS       SELECT name FROM table name WHERE name    Nazir    LIMIT 1   Query OK  0 rows affected  0 00 sec  Records  0  Duplicates  0  Warnings  0   ---- -------- ----------- ------    id   name     address     tele    ---- -------- ----------- ------     1   Nazir    Kolkata     033     ---- -------- ----------- ------    Insert a different record   INSERT INTO table name  name  address  tele  SELECT   FROM  SELECT  Santosh    Kestopur    044   AS tmp WHERE NOT EXISTS       SELECT name FROM table name WHERE name    Santosh    LIMIT 1   Query OK  1 row affected  0 00 sec  Records  1 Duplicates  0 Warnings  0  SELECT   FROM  table name     ---- -------- ----------- ------    id   name     address     tele    ---- -------- ----------- ------     1   Nazir    Kolkata     033       2   Santosh  Kestopur    044     ---- -------- ----------- ------

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I would use a merge   create PROCEDURE  dbo   EmailsRecebidosInsert       DE nvarchar 50        ASSUNTO nvarchar 50        DATA nvarchar 30    AS BEGIN    with data as  select   DE as de    ASSUNTO as assunto    DATA as data     merge EmailsRecebidos t    using data s       on s de   t de      and s assunte   t assunto      and s data   t data     when not matched by target     then insert  de  assunto  data  values  s de  s assunto  s data   END

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For those looking for the fastest way  I recently came across these benchmarks where apparently using  INSERT SELECT    EXCEPT SELECT     turned out to be the fastest for 50 million records or more    Here s some sample code from the article  the 3rd block of code was the fastest    INSERT INTO  table1  Id  guidd  TimeAdded  ExtraData  SELECT Id  guidd  TimeAdded  ExtraData FROM  table2 WHERE NOT EXISTS  Select Id  guidd From  table1 WHERE  table1 id    table2 id  ----------------------------------- MERGE  table1 as  Target  USING   select Id  guidd  TimeAdded  ExtraData from  table2  as  Source   id  guidd  TimeAdded  ExtraData      on  Target  id   Source  id WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN     INSERT  id  guidd  TimeAdded  ExtraData      VALUES   Source  id   Source  guidd   Source  TimeAdded   Source  ExtraData   ------------------------------ INSERT INTO  table1  id  guidd  TimeAdded  ExtraData  SELECT id  guidd  TimeAdded  ExtraData from  table2 EXCEPT SELECT id  guidd  TimeAdded  ExtraData from  table1 ------------------------------ INSERT INTO  table1  id  guidd  TimeAdded  ExtraData  SELECT  table2 id   table2 guidd   table2 TimeAdded   table2 ExtraData FROM  table2 LEFT JOIN  table1 on  table1 id    table2 id WHERE  table1 id is null

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