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Posted on by greenguy2020

Hi everyone,

My goal is to have users update an excel table and have the data be pushed to a SQL Server table.

I'm trying to create a conditional Insert/Update statement in Power Automate based on Row ID. I have two tables right now with the same columns.

1) Excel Table

2) SQL Server Table

I'd like to INSERT a row into the SQl Server Table from the Excel Table IF the ID in Excel Table is NOT in SQL Server table. Otherwise, I'd like to UPDATE the SQL Server Table with the info from the Excel table.

I can get the Update and Insert statements to work separately, but can't get the condition yes/no action to work.

Any help?

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Nogueira1306 7,390 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Try this:

Get items
Condition -> ID Excel = ID SQL
If yes, update item
If no, create item + end flow

If you dont have that end flow, it will create more items like that

If that does not work. In the condition you can see if created = utcNow(). If yes, you create a new item in sql (because that item is also new in excel)
If no, you update that item

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eric-cheng 5,171 on at

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Hi @greenguy2020 ,

I posted this in another post but it should hopefully assist you.

Option 1 - Execute SQL Query

Use Execute SQL Query to execute a Select query to return a count e.g. select count(ID) as count where excel.id = sql.id

Add a Compose action underneath and go to expressions and paste this in (you may need to tweak Parse_JSON depending on the name of the action in the previous step). What this does is to return the first JSON object in the index and count field.

body('Parse_JSON')?['ResultSets']?['Table1'][0]['count']

When you run it, it should return the count of rows which you can then use in your condition. If a count is greater than 0, a row exists and you can run the Update statement, else, run the Insert statement

Option 2 - Get Items

You could also try the Get rows (v2) action with a filter. You can then get the length of the value to get the row count.

length(body('Get_rows_(V2)')?['value'])

Again, you can then use in your condition. If a count is greater than 0, a row exists and you can run the Update statement, else, run the Insert statement

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