Hi --

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, chriswillis10 / gmail.com wrote:

> so then,
> what does drop table if exists do?

It drops the table if the table exists, without raising an error if it
doesn't.

I'm not sure how this topic ended up on this mailing list, which is
about Ruby.  Can you try to find an SQL or MySQL list to discuss this
on?


David

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