Question

I need to drop a table and make a new one. If I drop the table and the table doesn’t exist, I get an error

How can I check if the table exists?

I’m working on Oracle 11g

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You could do something like this:

DECLARE v_exist PLS_INTEGER;
BEGIN

SELECT COUNT(*) INTO v_exist
FROM user_tables
WHERE table_name = 'YOURTABLEHERE';

IF v_exist = 1 THEN
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'DROP TABLE YOURTABLEHERE';
END IF;