Re: Create a table only if the table doesn't exists

"fred" <r5tr_at_free.fr> wrote in message
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: Hello,
:
: I want to write a sql script that creates a table only if the table
doesn't
: already exists (but if the table creation fails for another reason than
: "table already exists" I want to know about it).
: Is it possible to do that in sql only or is pl/sql needed ?
: If needed, how do you do that in pl/sql ?
:
: Thanks a lot for your help.
:
: Fred.
:
:

i'm assuming you are using SQL*Plus to run a script.

SQL*Plus does not do conditional processing based on SQL Errors -- however it does have a WHENEVER SQLERROR command that may be of some use to you

in PL/SQL, you want EXECUTE IMMEDIATE

depending on your OS and/or OS utilities, you can always filter out the ORA-00955s from your output file

++ mcs Received on Thu Jun 22 2006 - 11:55:56 CDT