Re: Create table only if does not exist?

I was thinking that the begin and end were only for CREATE PROCEDURE. This
is good to know.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Perfect! The BEGIN/END was the missing link I needed.

Thanks, everybody!



On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Justin,

this might work in your script:

begin
if not exists (select 1 from systables where table_schema = 'MYLIB' and
table_name = 'MYTABLE') then
create table mylib.mytable as (
...
) with data;
end if;
end;

I don't have a session at hand right now - but this should work - maybe
with some syntax errors corrected.

SQL compound statements (begin ... end;) do work in SQL scripts - in iACS
and in RUNSQLSTM.

HTH
Daniel

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