On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: > Probably not. Don't try to turn SQL into a procedural language. Do the > SELECT that tells you whether the record exists and gives you the information > you need if it does, then do whatever INSERTs you need to do.
I agree with the first part. I don't agree with the second. SQL _is_ a programming language. If you resort to using a procedural language to do the things you don't know how to do in SQL then you're not really meeting the spirit of your first recommendation. This is why I like the INSERT ... SELECT ... WHERE <condition-that-would-go-in-an-if-then-else> idiom: it's declarative, and it uses SQL as a programming language with less glue needed from the host language. Nico -- _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
