Updating or inserting high scores in SQL

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Published on 2011-11-27T17:44:25Z Indexed on 2011/11/27 17:50 UTC
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I've been racking my brain over this for the past few days and I'm not sure it's possible, but figured I ask here.

Is it possible for a single SQL statement to update a high score if your score is greater or insert it if your first score?

My Score table has a UserID, Level and Score columns and I like it to follow the following logic:

  • If your new score is greater than your last score for this Level, then replace it.
  • If you don't have a score for this Level then add it.
  • If your score for this Level is less than your highest score for this Level then do nothing.

Is this possible in a single SQL statement or do I have to use two, one to see if you have a new high score and if so, replace it? Each UserID would have only one score in the table for each Level.

I'm using MySQL.

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