UPDATE AggregatedData SET datenum="734152.979166667", Timestamp="2010-01-14 23:30:00.000" WHERE datenum="734152.979166667"; It works if the datenum exists, but I want to insert this data as a new row if the datenum does not exist.
UPDATE
the datenum is unique but that's not the primary key
Jai is correct that you should use INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE.
Note that you do not need to include datenum in the update clause since it's the unique key, so it should not change. You do need to include all of the other columns from your table. You can use the VALUES() function to make sure the proper values are used when updating the other columns.
Here is your update re-written using the proper INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE syntax for MySQL:
INSERT INTO AggregatedData (datenum,Timestamp) VALUES ("734152.979166667","2010-01-14 23:30:00.000") ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE Timestamp=VALUES(Timestamp) 
UNIQUE constraint for Timestamp by using ALTER TABLE AggregatedData ADD UNIQUE (Timestamp)
Try using this:
If you specify
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, and a row is inserted that would cause a duplicate value in aUNIQUE index orPRIMARY KEY, MySQL performs an [UPDATE`](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/update.html) of the old row...The
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATEclause can contain multiple column assignments, separated by commas.With
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, the affected-rows value per row is 1 if the row is inserted as a new row, 2 if an existing row is updated, and 0 if an existing row is set to its current values. If you specify theCLIENT_FOUND_ROWSflag tomysql_real_connect()when connecting to mysqld, the affected-rows value is 1 (not 0) if an existing row is set to its current values...
This is not too bad, but we could actually combine everything into one query. I found different solutions on the internet. The simplest, but MySQL only solution is this:
INSERT INTO wp_postmeta (post_id, meta_key) SELECT ?id, ‘page_title’ FROM DUAL WHERE NOT EXISTS ( SELECT meta_id FROM wp_postmeta WHERE post_id = ?id AND meta_key = ‘page_title’ ); UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = ?page_title WHERE post_id = ?id AND meta_key = ‘page_title’; I had a situation where I needed to update or insert on a table according to two fields (both foreign keys) on which I couldn't set a UNIQUE constraint (so INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE won't work). Here's what I ended up using:
replace into last_recogs (id, hasher_id, hash_id, last_recog) select l.* from (select id, hasher_id, hash_id, [new_value] from last_recogs where hasher_id in (select id from hashers where name=[hasher_name]) and hash_id in (select id from hashes where name=[hash_name]) union select 0, m.id, h.id, [new_value] from hashers m cross join hashes h where m.name=[hasher_name] and h.name=[hash_name]) l limit 1; This example is cribbed from one of my databases, with the input parameters (two names and a number) replaced with [hasher_name], [hash_name], and [new_value]. The nested SELECT...LIMIT 1 pulls the first of either the existing record or a new record (last_recogs.id is an autoincrement primary key) and uses that as the value input into the REPLACE INTO.
