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IF EXISTS

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

For idempotent execution of DDL scripts, the useful IF EXISTS clause is supported by jOOQ.

// Drop a schema
create.dropSchemaIfExists("schema").execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

dropSchemaIfExists("schema")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, DUCKDB, EXASOL, H2, HSQLDB, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, 
-- VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
DROP SCHEMA IF EXISTS schema

-- DB2
BEGIN
  DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR SQLSTATE '42704' BEGIN END;
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
    DROP SCHEMA schema RESTRICT
  ';
END

-- HANA
DO BEGIN
  DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR SQL_ERROR_CODE 362 BEGIN END;
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
    DROP SCHEMA schema
  ';
END;

-- ORACLE
DROP USER IF EXISTS schema

-- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE
BEGIN TRY
  DROP SCHEMA schema
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
  IF error_number() != 15151 BEGIN
    DECLARE @ErrorMessage NVARCHAR(4000) = ERROR_MESSAGE();
    DECLARE @ErrorSeverity INT = ERROR_SEVERITY();
    DECLARE @ErrorState INT = ERROR_STATE();
    RAISERROR (@ErrorMessage, @ErrorSeverity, @ErrorState);
  END;
END CATCH

-- SQLSERVER
BEGIN TRY
  DROP SCHEMA schema
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
  IF error_number() != 15151 THROW;
END CATCH

-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, BIGQUERY, DERBY, FIREBIRD, INFORMIX, SQLITE, SYBASE, TERADATA, TRINO
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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