Question

I’ve only been able to see this work with a stored procedure and I can’t figure out the syntax. I basically have some external system calling a SQL query and I want to verify the table exists first using code similar to this:

if (EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dbo' AND  TABLE_NAME = 'OrderUpdates'))
  BEGIN
    --return 1 or 0 if it exists or doesn't exist
  END

I can’t get the return statement to work properly.

Answer 1

 SELECT CAST(COUNT(*) AS BIT) -- Should be unique to give 0 or 1 as result
 FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
 WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dbo'
    AND TABLE_NAME = 'OrderUpdates'
    -- Not sure if you want views or not:
    AND TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'