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DROP DATABASE 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 database
create.dropDatabaseIfExists("database").execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
dropDatabaseIfExists("database")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, YugabyteDB
DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS database
SQLDataWarehouse
BEGIN TRY
DROP DATABASE database
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
IF error_number() != 2714 BEGIN
DECLARE @ErrorMessage NVARCHAR(4000) = ERROR_MESSAGE();
DECLARE @ErrorSeverity INT = ERROR_SEVERITY();
DECLARE @ErrorState INT = ERROR_STATE();
RAISERROR (@ErrorMessage, @ErrorSeverity, @ErrorState);
END;
END CATCH
SQLServer
BEGIN TRY DROP DATABASE database END TRY BEGIN CATCH IF error_number() != 2714 THROW; END CATCH
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, Oracle, Redshift, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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