Reminds me of an old T-Shirt from Calc class with the text of a solved
problem coming down to "1=0", and the moral of the story was, "Don't Drink
and Derive."


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A very old trick to do this (and get sort of schema info without using
schema support) is:

select * from table where 1 = 2

-- Henkk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Tomiczek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Checking Existance and Creating SqlServer Objects


> Yes, there is - you can even do it in the create SQL Statement. At least
> with SQL Server 2000. Otherwise not really.
>
> Well, the last isue would be a select *, but then you run the chance of
> getting all the data dumped.
>
> SQL Actually defines schema views that awould allow you to query for
> objects, BUT - if you are not for a specific dtabase (or set thereof) I
> think not all databases support the schema views yet.
>
> Regards
>
> Thomas Tomiczek
> THONA Consulting Ltd.
> (Microsoft MVP C#/.NET)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 24. April 2002 23:11
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> Subject: [DOTNET] Checking Existance and Creating SqlServer Objects
>
>
> Is there a way to query for the existance of tables and stored
> procedures from C#?  From VB6 land I was using SQLDMO, but can't seem to
> figure it out through interop in C#.  I want to be able to create
> tables, but only if they don't exist first, stored procedures I would
> most likely want to just drop and recreate.  Any thoughts would be very
> appreciated!
>
> TIA...
>
> Jeff
>
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