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

Another method is to define an exception and then only catch that exception letting all others propagate.

Declare
   eTableDoesNotExist Exception;
   PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT(eTableDoesNotExist, -942);
Begin
   EXECUTE IMMEDIATE ('DROP TABLE myschema.mytable');
Exception
   When eTableDoesNotExist Then
      DBMS_Output.Put_Line('Table already does not exist.');
End;