Assuming that you have a unique index on table1.email, then why not use this more simple command: ``` INSERT OR IGNORE INTO table1(email) VALUES ('test@domain.com'); ``` Of course, if you either have no useable index then you can use a longer more inefficient method such as: ``` INSERT INTO table1 (email) SELECT email FROM ( SELECT 'test@domain.com' AS email ) AS o WHERE NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE email == o.email ); ``` The former is much shorter and staightforward while the latter is much longer and slower, but is standard SQL that should work unchanged on all SQL platforms since about 1985.