On Thursday 06 October 2005 10:57 am, 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.5.X has information_schema.. However... 4.1, you can show tables like '%tab%' and you will get a row back if exists.. WARNING, myisam will be quick, innodb will be really slow, specially if the tables are big.. Jeff
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