I have a series of data that need to be written into SQL, what should I do to check the data in SQL to prevent same data inserted into table?
Example data to be inserted:
David
James
John
If the 4th data is John
again, I want the system to skip the duplicate record (John).
So far I have:
SqlConnection myCnn = new SqlConnection(cnn);
String _state = "Insert into CamNo1(platename, date, camID, path, filename) OUTPUT INSERTED.platename values(@msg, getdate(), @camID, @path, @filename)";
SqlCommand _Query = new SqlCommand(_state, myCnn);
_Query.Parameters.AddWithValue("@msg", msg);
_Query.Parameters.AddWithValue("@camID", camID);
_Query.Parameters.AddWithValue("@path", imageFile);
_Query.Parameters.AddWithValue("@filename", name);
try
{
myCnn.Open();
string checkname = (string)_Query.ExecuteScalar();
myCnn.Close();
getcheckname = checkname;
Console.WriteLine("OK");
}
catch (Exception)
{
}
i got the string value checkname that is last inserted, what should i do check the data?
First, you can prevent a duplicate from ever occurring in the table by using a unique index or constraint. An index/constraint can work in concert with the suggestions below. If you only use a unique index and not one of the below solutions, inserting a duplicate record will throw an error and you will need to handle that on the other end.
Additionally, I would probably insert the data via a stored procedure that checks to see if the row already exists. To do that, you can use either a MERGE statement, as shown in this pseudo code:
create procedure MyProcedure
(
@Name nvarchar(100),
...
)
as
merge MyTable
using
(
select @Name,...
) as source (Name, ...)
on MyTable.Name = source.Name
when not matched then
insert (Name,...) values (source.Name,...)
when matched then
update set Name = @Name,...
or, you could check for the records existence and insert or update manually:
create procedure MyProcedure
(
@Name nvarchar(100),
...
)
as
if not exists (select * from MyTable where Name = @Name)
begin
insert into MyTable (Name,...) values (@Name,...)
end
else
begin
update MyTable
set ...
where Name = @Name
end
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