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How to perform and INSERT/UPDATE on match/unmatch in Snowflake
Let's start making a Food table:
CREATE TABLE Food(
Code varchar(50) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
Grp varchar(100) NULL,
Quantity int NOT NULL,
Color nvarchar(50) NULL
);
INSERT INTO Food
(Code, Grp, Quantity,Color)
VALUES
('Apple', 'Fruit', 44, 'red'),
('Apple', 'Fruit', 1, 'yellow'),
('Pineapple', 'Fruit', 14, 'brown'),
('Apple', 'Fruit', 12, 'red'),
('Banana', 'Fruit', 1, 'yellow'),
('Tomatoes', 'Vegetables', 8, 'red'),
('Cucumbers', 'Vegetables', 3, 'green');

and another (temporary) table Food_tmp:
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE Food_tmp(
Code varchar(50) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
Grp varchar(100) NULL,
Quantity int NOT NULL,
Color nvarchar(50) NULL
);
INSERT INTO Food_tmp
(Code, Grp, Quantity, Color)
VALUES
('Watermelon', 'Fruit', 100, 'multi'),
('Banana', 'Fruit', 21, 'green');

Now, suppoe we want to insert the rows if they are new (looking at the Code column) or update the relative values. For this activity we can use the following:
MERGE INTO Food T USING (
SELECT T.Code AS T_ID, S.*
FROM (
SELECT Code FROM Food
) T
FULL OUTER JOIN Food_tmp S
ON T.Code = S.Code
) S ON S.T_ID = T.Code
WHEN MATCHED AND T.Code=S.Code THEN UPDATE SET Grp=S.Grp, Quantity=S.Quantity, Color=S.Color
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT VALUES (S.Code, S.Grp, S.Quantity, S.Color);


Nicola Simboli Senior Analytics Engineer
15+ years across SaaS, enterprise and consulting. Focused on scalable data platforms, metric reliability and analytics systems that teams actually use.