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How to check existence of path for creating directory [message #172811]

Thu, 18 May 2006 02:54

agrawal_vaibhao
Messages: 20
Registered: May 2006

Junior Member

Hi,
I am creating directory in oracle with statement as follows
-- Create directory
create or replace directory DATA_DIR
as 'D:\OracleDirectory\DataDir';

Now is there any thing that tells me whether the path i am giving exists or not, so that i did not get invalid directory path error.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: How to check existence of path for creating directory [message #172832 is a reply to message #172811]

Thu, 18 May 2006 04:00

Frank Naude
Messages: 4596
Registered: April 1998

Senior Member

How about using dir or ls?

DOS:\>dir D:\OracleDirectory\DataDir
The system cannot find the file specified.

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Re: How to check existence of path for creating directory [message #172848 is a reply to message #172811]

Thu, 18 May 2006 05:59

ebrian
Messages: 2794
Registered: April 2006

Senior Member

Oracle doesn't verify that the path exist, so as Frank indicated, you'll have to check the O/S first.

The directory doesn't have to exist in order to create a directory reference in Oracle.

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