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Luckily I have autonomy to choose a database (AWS RDS based) - which connector has most wide connection+action capabilities (particularly for bulk ops)I am inclined towards Aurora (so choice between MySQL or Postgres) 
Haven't tried this myself, but curious as I see rampant use of lookup tables for storing (growing) data (not just config/metadata)
Is there way to add entry to lookup table only if doesn't already exist (based on a specific column value?)Came across a recipe which  seems to be inefficient - it's looking a search for the value in lookup table, monitoring for error (entry not foun...
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