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[matthew.green AT datamartcomputing.com]

Hi Igor,

The table already exists error is a normal Sybase error. You'll get the same 
from isql.

There are several ways around this, you could create a temporary stored 
procedure with the create in or you could put the create statement in a 
variable and use execute immediate.

Cheers,

Matt.

July 22, 2018 8:58 AM, "Igor Korot" <ikorot01 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, ALL,
> I'm trying to execute following query:
> 
> query1 = L"IF NOT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM sysobjects WHERE name =
> 'abcatcol' AND type = 'U') CREATE TABLE abcatcol( <field_list>))";
> 
> Unfortunately it fails.
> If the table does not exist I'm getting 100 (SQL_NO_DATA) from the ODBC
> driver.
> And if the table does exist, I'm getting -1 with the error:
> 
> "The table already exists".
> 
> Is there a way to do this in 1 shot? Or I will have to do a conditional
> for Sybase to make it in 2 queries?
> 
> Please advise.
> 
> Thank you.
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