How to do IF NOT EXISTS in SQLite

Question

I am trying to port this line from MS SQL Server to SQLite

IF NOT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM EVENTTYPE WHERE EventTypeName = 'ANI Received') 
    INSERT INTO EVENTTYPE (EventTypeName) VALUES ('ANI Received');

It seems that SQLite does not support IF NOT EXISTS or at least I can't make it work. Am I missing something simple? Is there a workaround?

Answer 1

How about this?

INSERT OR IGNORE INTO EVENTTYPE (EventTypeName) VALUES 'ANI Received'

(Untested as I don't have SQLite... however this link is quite descriptive.)

Additionally, this should also work:

INSERT INTO EVENTTYPE (EventTypeName)
SELECT 'ANI Received'
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM EVENTTYPE WHERE EventTypeName = 'ANI Received');

Answer 2

The very common SQL "IF EXISTS()" and "IF NOT EXISTS()" is another 1 of countless, common things that just don't exist in sqlite at all.

(Very unfortunately)

Another "work around", another "band aid".