MySQL direct INSERT INTO with WHERE clause - mysql

Question

I tried googling for this issue but only find how to do it using two tables, as follows,
INSERT INTO tbl_member
SELECT Field1,Field2,Field3,...
FROM temp_table
WHERE NOT EXISTS(SELECT *
FROM tbl_member
WHERE (temp_table.Field1=tbl_member.Field1 and
temp_table.Field2=tbl_member.Field2...etc.)
)
This worked for one scenario,But now my interest is to upload data directly from the program itself without using two tables. What i want is to upload the data which is not in the table. The sql i had in my head was like the following,
INSERT INTO tbl_member (SensorIdValue, DataTimeValue, DataInValue, IncompleteValue, SpiValue, InfoValue)
VALUES ('Sensor.org', '20121017150103', 'eth0','','','')
WHERE (SensorIdValue != 'Sensor.org'AND DataTimeValue != '20121017150103'AND DataInValue != 'eth0'AND IncompleteValue != ''AND SpiValue != ''AND InfoValue != '');
But it's wrong.. may i know the proper way of doing it please, Thank you very much :)

Answer 1

INSERT syntax cannot have WHERE clause. The only time you will find INSERT has WHERE clause is when you are using INSERT INTO...SELECT statement.
The first syntax is already correct.

Answer 2

you can use UPDATE command.
UPDATE table_name SET name=#name, email=#email, phone=#phone WHERE client_id=#client_id

Answer 3

INSERT syntax cannot have WHERE but you can use UPDATE.
The syntax is as follows:
UPDATE table_name
SET column1 = value1, column2 = value2, ...
WHERE condition;

Answer 4

If I understand the goal is to insert a new record to a table but if the data is already on the table: skip it! Here is my answer:
INSERT INTO tbl_member
(Field1,Field2,Field3,...)
SELECT a.Field1,a.Field2,a.Field3,...
FROM (SELECT Field1 = [NewValueField1], Field2 = [NewValueField2], Field3 = [NewValueField3], ...) AS a
LEFT JOIN tbl_member AS b
ON a.Field1 = b.Field1
WHERE b.Field1 IS NULL
The record to be inserted is in the new value fields.

Answer 5

Example of how to perform a INSERT INTO SELECT with a WHERE clause.
INSERT INTO #test2 (id) SELECT id FROM #test1 WHERE id > 2

Answer 6

merge into table2 chg
using table1 src on src.id = chg.id
when not matched then
insert (chg.id, chg.desc)
values (src.id, src.desc)
when matched then
update set chg.desc = src.desc;

Answer 7

The INSERT INTO Statement
The INSERT INTO statement is used to insert a new row in a table.
SQL INSERT INTO Syntax
It is possible to write the INSERT INTO statement in two forms.
The first form doesn't specify the column names where the data will be inserted, only their values:
INSERT INTO table_name
VALUES (value1, value2, value3,...)
The second form specifies both the column names and the values to be inserted:
INSERT INTO table_name (column1, column2, column3,...)
VALUES (value1, value2, value3,...)