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Asked: 2026-05-20T03:10:36+00:00

I’d like to build as an experiment a sort of dictionary where any user

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I’d like to build as an experiment a sort of dictionary where any user can suggest new words.

In order to avoid duplicates, I used to do a query SELECT that search for that word and if size is zero then I do the INSERT INTO.

I feel this method works well only if you need to warn the user br lese, but in my case I want something faster and automated and silent.

The very first entry of the word (the very first time a user suggests that word) is going to be the ID of the page word so I don’t want to use REPLACE.

I was wondering whether using INSERT IGNORE can be the solution?

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  1. Editorial Team

    INSERT IGNORE will do the trick for you here. You just need to make sure you have a UNIQUE index defined on the column you don’t want duplicated.

    Another options is INSERT INTO … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE which won’t insert the value again, but will allow you update other columns in that row. A counter or timestamp for example.

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