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DROP SYNONYM IF EXISTS

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

For idempotent execution of DDL scripts, the useful IF EXISTS clause is supported by jOOQ, and emulated using an anonymous, procedural block if possible.

// Drop a synonym
create.dropSynonymIfExists("sequence").execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

dropSynonymIfExists("sequence")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

DB2

BEGIN
  DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR SQLSTATE '42704' BEGIN END;
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
    DROP ALIAS sequence
  ';
END

H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, Oracle, SQLServer

DROP SYNONYM IF EXISTS sequence

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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