Check table exist or not before create it in Oracle

Question

Trying to check is table exist before create in Oracle. Search for most of the post from Stackoverflow and others too. Find some query but it didn\'t work for me.

Answer 1

Well there are lot of answeres already provided and lot are making sense too.

Some mentioned it is just warning and some giving a temp way to disable warnings. All that will work but add risk when number of transactions in your DB is high.

I came across similar situation today and here is very simple query I came up with...

declare
begin
  execute immediate '
    create table "TBL" ("ID" number not null)';
  exception when others then
    if SQLCODE = -955 then null; else raise; end if;
end;
/

955 is failure code.

This is simple, if exception come while running query it will be suppressed. and you can use same for SQL or Oracle.