On Feb 24, 2012, at 13:19, Emerson Espínola wrote:

> I have table A and B and a n to n relationship called C.
> In order to insert something in table C I must check if the primary key of A 
> and B exist in their respective tables before with a SELECT statement.
> Is there any sample code that does that?

Surely coding that way is a race condition. (Between the time you run the 
SELECT statement, and the time you run the INSERT statement, the database could 
have been changed by other processes/users.) Surely instead you would set up 
the join table structure so that there are appropriate unique constraints. And 
then when you want to add a relationship between entities A.x and B.y you 
simply INSERT the appropriate entry into table C. If it succeeds, you're done; 
the relationship was added. If it fails, the unique constraint was violated 
because a relationship between them already existed.


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