SQL Question

I'm new to Oracle from Sybase.

What's the Oracle equivalent to the Sybase:

if exists (select * from TABLE)
else

?

At the moment i'm setting a variable to count(*) and then doing an

IF var > 0 THEN
ELSE It's rather cumbersome.

Thanks

Paul Received on Sun Apr 18 1999 - 10:24:39 CDT