Question

I am trying to port this line from MS SQL Server to SQLite

IF NOT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM EVENTTYPE WHERE EventTypeName = 'ANI Received')      INSERT INTO EVENTTYPE (EventTypeName) VALUES ('ANI Received'); 

It seems that SQLite does not support IF NOT EXISTS or at least I can’t make it work. Am I missing something simple? Is there a workaround?

Answer 1

How about this?

INSERT OR IGNORE INTO EVENTTYPE (EventTypeName) VALUES 'ANI Received' 

(Untested as I don’t have SQLite… however this link is quite descriptive.)

Additionally, this should also work:

INSERT INTO EVENTTYPE (EventTypeName) SELECT 'ANI Received' WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM EVENTTYPE WHERE EventTypeName = 'ANI Received');