How to implement a conditional Upsert stored procedure?

Question

I\'m trying to implement your basic UPSERT functionality, but with a twist: sometimes I don\'t want to actually update an existing row.

Essentially I\'m trying to synchr

Answer 1

You could switch the order of the update/insert around. So you do the insert within a try/catch and if you get a constraint violation then do the update. It feels a little dirty though.