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

You could always catch the error yourself.

begin
execute immediate 'drop table mytable';
exception when others then null;
end;

It is considered bad practice to overuse this, similar to empty catch()'es in other languages.

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K