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Insert into SQL Table only when Table is First Created?
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(Jun-26-2022, 10:44 PM)Extra Wrote: Is there a way to program this so the values only get inserted when the table is first created (Table does not exist), and if the table does exist, don't insert those values because they're already there.

Have you tried 'SELECT' on said data values, as a test, before running the 'INSERT' statement? The idea being that if 'SELECT' returns 'True', then the data is there and as such you can skip over the 'INSERT'. If it returns 'False' (or possibly, 'Null'), then have the 'INSERT' do its thing.
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RE: Insert into SQL Table only when Table is First Created? - by rob101 - Jun-27-2022, 12:30 AM

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