Dropping and recreating databases in Microsoft SQL Server

Question

I am experimenting and learning with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. I have a database where I made many experiments. Now I would like to drop and recreate it. So I extract th

Answer 1

SQL Server 2016 (and above) support one line and atomic(?) syntax DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS database_name

REF: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178613.aspx