Re: Creating a table in Oracle DB if it does not exist, using SQL

1. Create a file with your table definition. Your could call it anything you want with a SQL extention. EXAMPLE mynewtable.sql:

    create table &1..new_table (

       col1  char(1),
       col2  char(1),
       col3  char(1),
       col4  char(1)
       );

2. Logon to database with DBA rights and call mynewtable.sql with user name as parameter.

    sqlplus dba/password

    SQL> @mynewtable scott

3. Repeat #2 for every user. This will create the table for each user. There is no need to check if the table already exists since trying to create the table will error out and not harm the existing table. Received on Mon Sep 13 2004 - 15:27:22 CDT