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ALTER TABLE IF EXISTS
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
A popular subclause of DDL statements that jOOQ can usually emulate, is the IF EXISTS clause:
// Renaming the table
create.alterTableIfExists("old_table").renameTo("new_table").execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
alterTableIfExists("old").renameTo("new")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, CockroachDB, DuckDB, H2, Oracle, Postgres, Snowflake, Trino, YugabyteDB
ALTER TABLE IF EXISTS old RENAME TO new
DB2
BEGIN
DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR SQLSTATE '42704' BEGIN END;
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
RENAME TABLE old TO new
';
END
Hana
DO BEGIN
DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR SQL_ERROR_CODE 259 BEGIN END;
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
RENAME TABLE old TO new
';
END;
MariaDB
BEGIN NOT ATOMIC DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR SQLSTATE '42S02' BEGIN END; ALTER TABLE old RENAME TO new; END
SQLServer
BEGIN TRY
EXEC sp_executesql N'
EXEC sp_rename ''old'', new
';
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
IF error_number() != 4902 and error_number() != 15165 and error_number() != 15225 THROW;
END CATCH
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, ClickHouse, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, HSQLDB, Informix, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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