How is the word hacer upsert translated from Spanish to English

English translation
Upsert
verb

Jerga de bases de datos, fusión de «actualizar» e «insertar»: escribir un registro de modo que se actualice el que existe y se añada el que falta.

Database jargon, blended from "update" and "insert": to write a record so that an existing one is updated and a missing one is added.

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  • El proceso nocturno hace upsert de cada fila de cliente, así que repetir la importación nunca crea duplicados. — The nightly job upserts every customer row, so re-running the import never creates duplicates.

  • Un solo upsert sustituye el viejo par de consulta seguida de inserción. — One upsert replaces the old pair of a lookup followed by an insert.

  • En Postgres se hace upsert con INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE, porque la palabra en sí no es SQL estándar. — In Postgres you upsert with INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE, because the word itself is not standard SQL.

  • La documentación de la API llama upsert a este endpoint, así que enviar dos veces los mismos datos es seguro. — The API docs call this endpoint an upsert, so sending the same payload twice is safe.

  • Los desarrolladores dicen «haz upsert del perfil» porque «actualízalo o insértalo si falta» es muy largo. — Developers say "upsert the profile" because "update it, or insert it if it is missing" is a mouthful.

  • Una inserción simple falla con una clave duplicada; un upsert sobrescribe sin más la fila antigua. — A plain insert fails on a duplicate key; an upsert quietly overwrites the old row instead.

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