Oracle: If Table Exists

Question

I\'m writing some migration scripts for an Oracle database, and was hoping Oracle had something similar to MySQL\'s IF EXISTS construct.

Specifically, w

Answer 1

just wanted to post a full code that will create a table and drop it if it already exists using Jeffrey's code (kudos to him, not me!).

BEGIN
    BEGIN
         EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE tablename';
    EXCEPTION
         WHEN OTHERS THEN
                IF SQLCODE != -942 THEN
                     RAISE;
                END IF;
    END;

    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE TABLE tablename AS SELECT * FROM sourcetable WHERE 1=0';

END;