RE: table or view does not exist

From: Christopher Spence <cspence_at_FuelSpot.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:58:55 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0030952E.20010521085255@fatcity.com>

Using PL/SQL you can select by PK with rownum < 2 and just catch an exception.

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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 11:51 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Is it possible to check if a table first exist so I do not get any error messages on my installation scripts?

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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
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