How can I check if a View exists in a Database?

Question

I have some SQL code that needs to be executed if a certain View exists in a database. How would I go about checking if the View exists?

EDIT: The DBMS being used is Mic

Answer 1

If you want to check the validity and consistency of all the existing views you can use the following query

declare @viewName sysname
declare @cmd sysname
DECLARE check_cursor CURSOR FOR 
SELECT cast('['+SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id)+'].['+name+']' as sysname) AS viewname
FROM sys.views

OPEN check_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM check_cursor 
INTO @viewName

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN

set @cmd='select * from '+@viewName
begin try
exec (@cmd)
end try
begin catch
print 'Error: The view '+@viewName+' is corrupted .'
end catch
FETCH NEXT FROM check_cursor 
INTO @viewName
END 
CLOSE check_cursor;
DEALLOCATE check_cursor;