IF EXISTS for drop table.

what is the same statment like this "DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS
temp_item" for MS SQL? Does MS SQL have "IF EXISTS" function?
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if object_id('tempdb..#temp_item') is not null
drop table #temp_item
AMB
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> what is the same statment like this "DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS
> temp_item" for MS SQL? Does MS SQL have "IF EXISTS" function?
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|||A sample for the employee table in the Northwind database:
if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id =
object_id(N'[dbo].[Employees]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') = 1)
drop table [dbo].[Employees]
GO
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
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> what is the same statment like this "DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS
> temp_item" for MS SQL? Does MS SQL have "IF EXISTS" function?
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|||Use Alejandro's example for temp tables, and Jens' example for permanent
tables.
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> what is the same statment like this "DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS
> temp_item" for MS SQL? Does MS SQL have "IF EXISTS" function?
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