Introduction to Upserts
Discover how to use upserts with Ecto to efficiently manage database records by inserting new data or updating existing entries in one atomic operation. Understand scenarios requiring upserts to avoid race conditions and simplify your data workflows.
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Why do we need upserts?
Let’s say we wanted to front-load our music database’s genres table with every musical genre we could think of. We might choose to create a Comma-separated values (CSV) file with all the data we want to load, then write some code to parse the file and insert the data into the database. At first ...