Creating a stored procedure if it does not already exist

Question

I want to check if a list of stored procedures exist. I want this all to be done in 1 script, one by one. So far I have this format:

USE [myDatabase]
GO

IF NO         


        

Answer 1

I know that there's an accepted answer, but the answer does not address exactly what the original question asks, which is to CREATE the procedure if it does not exist. The following always works and has the benefit of not requiring dropping procedures which can be problematic if one is using sql authentication.

USE [MyDataBase]
GO

IF OBJECT_ID('mySchema.myProc') IS NULL
EXEC('CREATE PROCEDURE mySchema.myProc AS SET NOCOUNT ON;')
GO

ALTER PROCEDURE mySchema.myProc
    @DeclaredParmsGoHere    DataType

AS 
   BEGIN
       DECLARE @AnyVariablesINeed    Their DataType
   SELECT myColumn FROM myTable WHERE myIndex = @IndexParm