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On my website, the user can create tables, but how do i check if the table
exists, and if it doesn't it creates the table?
Thanks

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Fire Juggler wrote:
On my website, the user can create tables, but how do i check if the
table exists, and if it doesn't it creates the table?
Thanks


I don't know about other DD's but in MySQL:

IF NOT EXISTS - see the page on CREATE TABLE syntax in the MySQL manual:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/create-table.html

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