how to determine if record was inserted into SQL table

trap the error and handle it with your code.
You will need an On Error statement

Hi,
Is the below correct?

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            If UBound(v) > 1 Then
                strSql = "Insert into EmpTovWeeklyHours" _
                & "(SocialSecurity,Day,Hours)" _
                & " Values ('" & Replace(v(0), Chr(32), "") & "','" & Mid(v(3), 3, 2) & "/" & Mid(v(3), 5, 2) & "/" & Mid(v(3), 1, 2) & "'," & Replace(Replace(v(4), Chr(32), ""), "'", "") & ")"
                strSql = strSql & " ; Select @@Identity"
                CurrentProject.Connection.Execute strSql, i
                'Set rs2 = CurrentProject.Connection.Execute(strSql).NextRecordset
                'If rs2(0) = 0 Then
                If err.Number = -2147217873 Then
                    strSql = "Update EmpTovWeeklyHours Set Hours = " & v(4)
                    strSql = strSql & " Where SocialSecurity = '" & v(0) & "'"
                    strSql = strSql & " And Day = '" & Mid(v(3), 3, 2) & "/" & Mid(v(3), 5, 2) & "/" & Mid(v(3), 1, 2) & "'"
                    strSql = strSql & " And Hours <> " & v(4)
                    CurrentProject.Connection.Execute strSql, i
                End If
            End If

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something like that

There are actually two sets of errors you might need to check
* Err
* Errors(#) -- a collection of errors.  You can access these in a For Each or a traditional For loop

One way:
Here I use Table1(Field1)
You may include more fields in the insert part of the code.

To insert new records with no duplicates:

If IsNull(DLookup("Field1", "Table1", "Field1='" & "EN" & "'")) Then CurrentDb.Execute "Insert into Table1(Field1) VAlues('EN') "

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You may expand to alert of the existence of the record:

If IsNull(DLookup("Field1", "Table1", "Field1='" & "EN" & "'")) Then 
     CurrentDb.Execute "Insert into Table1(Field1) VAlues('EN') "
Else 
     MsgBox("Duplicate record, check data")
End If  

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Hi Experts,

This will be running in a loop for thousands of records therefore I am looking for the most efficient way to process that, I don't think dlookup is appropriate for this, not sure if opening new recordset is the right approach either, I think the best in this case would be to open one recordset at the beginning and for each record being inserted do rs.findfirst and if rs.nomatch...something like that.

What are your thoughts?

@hnasr,
You meant to say that the same recordset used to verify if the record already exists could be used for inserting in case it does not exists and for updating in case it does? that's cool, I didn't thought of that..
I'm sure that's more efficient than execute insert/update statements thousand times.

@bfuchs

I don't claim that because I was referring to reusing the recordset for new insert. You raised another good point to use the recordset for updating existing record. Thanks for the contribution.

Ok Experts, I think I will have plenty of work by now with all those suggestions, at least I got some ideas where to start..
Thank you very Much!

Welcome!