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[Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:48 AM, Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 2018-07-22 7:57 GMT+01:00 Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>
> This works for mssql:
>
> if object_id('test123') is null create table test123(i int)

What about this one:

CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS abcattbl_tnam_ownr ON abcattbl(\"abt_tnam\"
ASC, \"abt_ownr\" ASC)

?

It is on Sybase 16.
It says "Syntax error on the 'IF'".

Thank you.

>
> Frediano
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