How do I conditionally create a table in Sybase (TSQL)?

Question

OK, so Sybase (12.5.4) will let me do the following to DROP a table if it already exists:

IF EXISTS (
    SELECT 1
    FROM sysobjects
    WHERE name = \'a_t         


        

Answer 1

I haven't tested this, but you could try moving the create table statement into a sproc. You could then conditionally call that sproc based on your existing if statement.