Sqlite - SELECT or INSERT and SELECT in one statement

Question

I\'m trying to avoid writing separate SQL queries to achieve the following scenario:

I have a Table called Values:

Values:

id INT (PK)
data TEXT
         


        

Answer 1

Your command does not work because in SQL, INSERT does not return a value.

If you have a unique constraint/index on the data column, you can use that to prevent duplicates if you blindly insert the value; this uses SQLite's INSERT OR IGNORE extension:

INSERT OR IGNORE INTO "Values"(data) VALUES('SOME_DATE');
SELECT id FROM "Values" WHERE data = 'SOME_DATA';