Question

I tried googling for this issue but only find how to do it using two tables, as follows,

INSERT INTO tbl_member
SELECT Field1,Field2,Field3,... 
FROM temp_table
WHERE NOT EXISTS(SELECT * 
         FROM tbl_member 
         WHERE (temp_table.Field1=tbl_member.Field1 and
               temp_table.Field2=tbl_member.Field2...etc.)
        )

This worked for one scenario,But now my interest is to upload data directly from the program itself without using two tables. What i want is to upload the data which is not in the table. The sql i had in my head was like the following,

INSERT INTO tbl_member (SensorIdValue, DataTimeValue, DataInValue, IncompleteValue, SpiValue, InfoValue)
VALUES ('Sensor.org', '20121017150103', 'eth0','','','')
WHERE (SensorIdValue != 'Sensor.org'AND DataTimeValue != '20121017150103'AND DataInValue != 'eth0'AND IncompleteValue != ''AND SpiValue != ''AND InfoValue != '');

But it’s wrong.. may i know the proper way of doing it please, Thank you very much 🙂

Answer 1

INSERT syntax cannot have WHERE clause. The only time you will find INSERT has WHERE clause is when you are using INSERT INTO...SELECT statement.

The first syntax is already correct.