checking if table exists

[Wolf Bublitz]

Hi,

I'm new to Derby DB and I want to know how it is possible to check if  
a table exits. Via the command line tool I can get a list by typing  
"SHOW TALBES" but in Netbeans' db-editor  this does not work.

I get the following error:

SHOW TABLES

Error code 30000, SQL state 42X01: Syntaxfehler: Encountered "SHOW"  
at line 1, column 1.
Line 1, column 1


Greetings Wolf