I considered that approach but I am working on a project that will accept 
different types of database engines, e.g. H2, MSSQL, MySQL, etc., so I was 
hoping to put the SQL code for creating objects in a single SQL script.

thanks though,


Igal


On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 10:04:55 AM UTC-7, Equ Zephyr wrote:
>
>  I think you should be able to achieve the desired functionality in a 
> reusable manner by writing a stored procedure / user defined function in 
> Java as shown in the Features section of the documentation.
>  ------------------------------
> From: Igal
> Sent: 9/4/2012 2:55 PM
> To: [email protected] <javascript:>
> Subject: conditional statements
>
> hi, 
>
>  I'm trying to create objects only if they don't exist, but I want to use 
> an IF-THEN statement block.  in MSSQL I would do something like:
>
>  IF NOT EXISTS( 
>
>   SELECT  *
>   FROM    INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
>   WHERE   TABLE_NAME      = 'TableName'
>       AND TABLE_SCHEMA    = 'public'
>
> ) BEGIN
>
> ... some sql statements here
>
> END;
>
>  
>  is there an equivalent H2 syntax?
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