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Oracle: If Table Exists

The best and most efficient way is to catch the “table not found” exception: this avoids the overhead of checking if the table exists twice; and doesn’t suffer from the problem that if the DROP fails for some other reason (that might be important) the exception is still raised to the caller: ADDENDUM For reference, … Read more

MySQL DROP all tables, ignoring foreign keys

I found the generated set of drop statements useful, and recommend these tweaks: Limit the generated drops to your database like this: Note 1: This does not execute the DROP statements, it just gives you a list of them. You will need to cut and paste the output into your SQL engine to execute them. Note … Read more