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[chris5126]

Hi guys,

Very new to sql and my question is prob very basic.

I have a table desing shown below. I will using a c# program to add new rows to the database but i only want to add a new row if the hostname doesnt currently exist in the table. If it does i just need to add the new info to the current row with the same hostname and update the UTS field.

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[T_Servers](
	[ServerID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
	[HostName] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
	[MachineType] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
	[Kernel] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
	[CPUS] [tinyint] NOT NULL,
	[CPUSPeed] [varchar](15) NOT NULL,
	[MemoryMB] [int] NOT NULL,
	[Architecture] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
	[SerialNo] [varchar](100) NOT NULL,
	[PrimaryIP] [varchar](20) NOT NULL,
	[DNS] [varchar](10) NOT NULL,
	[NIS] [varchar](10) NOT NULL,
	[CTS] [datetime] NOT NULL,
	[UTS] [datetime] NOT NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_t_serverID] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED

The query i run to add new rows is shown below ( i havent actually filled in the values as this is read in from a file via c#":

INSERT INTO T_Servers(HostName, MachineType, Kernel, CPUS, CPUSPeed, MemoryMB, Architecture, SerialNo, PrimaryIP, DNS,
NIS)
VALUES (HostName, MachineType, Kernel, CPUS, CPUSPeed, MemoryMB, Architecture, SerialNo, PrimaryIP, DNS,
NIS)INSERT INTO T_Servers(HostName, MachineType, Kernel, CPUS, CPUSPeed, MemoryMB, Architecture, SerialNo, PrimaryIP, DNS,
NIS)
VALUES (HostName, MachineType, Kernel, CPUS, CPUSPeed, MemoryMB, Architecture, SerialNo, PrimaryIP, DNS,
NIS)

I guess my question is can i change this code to do the checking i need so it will only insert rows with hostnames not in the table and if they are just update them?? Any help much apreciated

[chris5126]

solved it myself using an update statement