My MS SQL Server 7 code snippet was something like:

If object_id(“table_name”) is not null begin … end

This does not work for MS SQL Server 2000. So I tried something along the lines of:

if (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #Experimental_parameters) <> 0 begin DROP TABLE Experimental_parameters end

The problem is that this updated solution requires the existence of the table. So it is not the same thing as the first.

I am activating this with a Perl script. Maybe there is not a T-SQL solution for this, in which case I will need a Perl work around.

Any suggestions would be welcome, even though I know that this is not really a Perl question.

In reply to T-SQL problem - Perl solution? by Win

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