I'm trying to do a single row insert/update on a table but all the examples out there are for sets.
Can anyone fix my syntax please:
MERGE member_topic ON mt_member = 0 AND mt_topic = 110
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET mt_notes = 'test'
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT (mt_member, mt_topic, mt_notes) VALUES (0, 110, 'test')
Resolution per marc_s is to convert the single row to a subquery - which makes me think the MERGE command is not really intended for single row upserts.
MERGE member_topic
USING (SELECT 0 mt_member, 110 mt_topic) as source
ON member_topic.mt_member = source.mt_member AND member_topic.mt_topic = source.mt_topic
WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET mt_notes = 'test'
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT (mt_member, mt_topic, mt_notes) VALUES (0, 110, 'test');
i finally got the Upsert syntax using MERGE
in SQL Server 2008. Using what Jacob wanted to do (an Upsert):
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM member_topic WHERE mt_member = 0 AND mt_topic = 110)
BEGIN
--update existing row
UPDATE member_topic SET mt_notes = 'test'
WHERE mt_member = 0
AND mt_topic = 110
END
ELSE
BEGIN
--insert new row
INSERT INTO member_topic (mt_member, mt_topic, mt_notes)
VALUES (0, 110, 'test')
END
The equivalent MERGE
syntax is:
MERGE member_topic
USING (
VALUES (0, 110, 'test')
) AS foo (mt_member, mt_topic, mt_notes)
ON member_topic.mt_member = foo.mt_member
AND member_topic.mt_topic = foo.mt_topic
WHEN MATCHED THEN
UPDATE SET mt_notes = foo.mt_notes
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
INSERT (mt_member, mt_topic, mt_notes)
VALUES (foo.mt_member, foo.mt_topic, foo.mt_notes)
; --A MERGE statement must be terminated by a semi-colon (;).