Does DB2 have an "insert or update" statement?
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From my code (Java) I want to ensure that a row exists in the database (DB2) after my code is executed.
My code now does a select and if no result is returned it does an insert. I really don't like this code since it exposes me to concurrency issuses when running in a multi-threaded environment.
What I would like to do is to put this logic in DB2 instead of in my Java code. Does DB2 have an "insert-or-update" statement? Or anything like it that I can use?
For example:
insertupdate into mytable values ('myid')
Another way of doing it would probably be to allways do the insert and catch "SQL-code -803 primary key already exists", but I would like to avoid that if possible.
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