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You can import all three records into an automatically created ``dogs`` table and set the ``id`` column as the primary key like so::
$ sqlite-utils insert dogs.db dogs dogs.json --pk=id
You can skip inserting any records that have a primary key that already exists using ``--ignore``::
$ sqlite-utils insert dogs.db dogs dogs.json --ignore
You can delete all the existing rows in the table before inserting the new records using ``--truncate``::
$ sqlite-utils insert dogs.db dogs dogs.json --truncate
.. _cli_inserting_data_binary:
Inserting binary data
---------------------
You can insert binary data into a BLOB column by first encoding it using base64 and then structuring it like this::
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You can import all three records into an automatically created ``dogs`` table and set the ``id`` column as the primary key like so::
.. _cli_inserting_data_nl_json:
$ sqlite-utils insert dogs.db dogs dogs.json --pk=id
You can skip inserting any records that have a primary key that already exists using ``--ignore``::
$ sqlite-utils insert dogs.db dogs dogs.json --ignore
You can delete all the existing rows in the table before inserting the new records using ``--truncate``::
$ sqlite-utils insert dogs.db dogs dogs.json --truncate
Inserting newline-delimited JSON
--------------------------------
You can also import newline-delimited JSON using the ``--nl`` option. Since `Datasette <https://datasette.io/>`__ can export newline-delimited JSON, you can combine the two tools like so::