Hi All, I am working on page(Lesson) has button called "AddToFavorite". when i click on this button lessonID,lessonHeading is added in the Coredata. - (NSFetchedResultsController *)fetchedResultsController { // Set up the fetched results controller if needed. if (fetchedResultsController != nil) { return fetchedResultsController; } // Create the fetch request for the entity. NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init]; // Edit the entity name as appropriate. NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Favorites" inManagedObjectContext:managedObjectContext]; [fetchRequest setEntity:entity]; // Edit the sort key as appropriate. NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"lessonHeading" ascending:YES]; NSArray *sortDescriptors = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:sortDescriptor, nil]; [fetchRequest setSortDescriptors:sortDescriptors]; NSFetchedResultsController *aFetchedResultsController = [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:fetchRequest managedObjectContext:managedObjectContext sectionNameKeyPath:@"lessonHeading" cacheName:@"Root"]; self.fetchedResultsController = aFetchedResultsController; self.fetchedResultsController.delegate = self; [aFetchedResultsController release]; [fetchRequest release]; [sortDescriptor release]; [sortDescriptors release]; return fetchedResultsController; } -(void)addToFavorites { UIAlertView *alert=[[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:nil message:@"Lesson has been added successfully to your Favorite List" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil]; [alert show]; [alert release]; //Create a new managed object context for the new book -- set its persistent store coordinator to the same as that from the fetched results controller's context. NSManagedObjectContext *addingContext = [[NSManagedObjectContext alloc] init]; self.addingManagedObjectContext = addingContext; [addingManagedObjectContext setPersistentStoreCoordinator:[[fetchedResultsController managedObjectContext] persistentStoreCoordinator]]; Favorites *fav = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"Favorites" inManagedObjectContext:addingContext]; fav.lessonID=[[data objectAtIndex:count]objectForKey:@"LessonID"]; fav.lessonTitle=[[data objectAtIndex:count]objectForKey:@"LessonTitle"]; [self didFinishWithSave:YES]; [addingContext release]; } My problem is that i want to show an alert if this lessonID is already existing in the coreData. show guide me how i can match the current page lessonID with the existing lessonID's in the CoreData. I am using CoreData 1st time.so sory for any mistake ...& thanks for ypur help frnds.