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Update and Insert records in a Database

  • August 22, 2019
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nedwaterman
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Hi,

 

I have data coming on on a daily basis to a table with no ID field. The data is a volume recorded by a meter every 15 minutes. A user on here called @Takashi kindly helped to put the workspace together, which creates a volume every 15 minutes even if the data is missing (it adds a 0).

 

However, I did this on an INSERT statement and am now finding that new files are coming in that update the previous values. I didn't account for this. I need to alter my workspace to:

find if a record already exists

if the record exists and is not zero don't update the field

if the record doesn't exist add the data.

Any idea how I do this? I'm not sure whether to use a ChangeDetector, FeatureMerger or FeatureJoiner and so am a bit confused!

 

Thanks

Neil

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What database are you writing to?

If you're simply logging a reading every 15 minutes you shouldn't have to go through change detection (besides... without an ID field, what would you check for?). I think it could be remedied by setting up an ID field. An INSERT should create a new record every time then.

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Hi there,

 

I'm writing to SQL Server 2016. I'm not sure how setting up an ID field would work - the data doesn't come in with an ID field, which would only be created by the workflow. I'd have to check that the id of the Meter, and the datetime are the same, and if exist, and equal 0, ignore the record, otherwise insert it. Just not sure how to achieve this!

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