Ryan,
>I am converting some code from MSSQL to MySQL. In one place I need to
>have a conditional query depending on if a table exists or not. There
>are different versions of this application and the table only exists in
>some of them. Here is how it was done in MSSQL:
If 'SHOW COLUMNS FROM tablename' returns error 1146 (42S02), the table
doesn't exist.
PB
Ryan Stille wrote:
>I am converting some code from MSSQL to MySQL. In one place I need to
>have a conditional query depending on if a table exists or not. There
>are different versions of this application and the table only exists in
>some of them. Here is how it was done in MSSQL:
>
>IF OBJECT_ID('cfgbiz') IS NOT NULL
> SELECT notifyto FROM cfgbiz
>ELSE
> SELECT '' as notifyto
>
>Is there something similar in MySQL? I am running version 4.1.x.
>
>Thanks,
>-Ryan
>
>
>
>
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