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upserting

upserting is the present participle and gerund of upsert.

Meaning of upsert

Verb

upsert (third-person singular simple present upserts, present participle upserting, simple past and past participle upserted)

  1. (transitive) To insert rows into a database table if they do not already exist, or update them if they do.
    • Each entity event is upserted into the key/value table, such that the most recently read event for a given key is represented.2020, Adam Bellemare, Building Event-Driven Microservices, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 25

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Questions about upserting

What is upserting the present participle and gerund of?
Upserting is the present participle and gerund of upsert.

Words near upserting in the dictionary

  1. upsent
  2. UPSer
  3. UPSers
  4. upsert
  5. upserted
  6. upserting
  7. upsertion
  8. upsertions
  9. upserts
  10. UPSes
  11. upset

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