“If not exists” fails on SQL CE

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It appears that SQL CE does not support any procedural extensions at all; only DDL and DML like from the 1970s.

You will either have to put procedural logic in your application (C# or whatever) or go to an embeddable database with procedural extensions, like SQLite.

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