Is there something like "if not exist create sequence ..." in Oracle SQL?

For my application that uses an Oracle 8 DB, I am providing an SQL script to setup stuff like triggers, sequences etc., which can be copied and pasted into SQL*Plus. I would like the script to not stop with an error if a sequence that I am trying to create already exists. For a Trigger this can easily be done using "create or replace trigger ...", but 开发者_运维百科for a sequence this does not work. I also tried ""if not exists mysequence then create sequence ..." but it did not too. Is there some alternative?

Alternatively, if this is not possible, is there a way to do a "drop sequence mysequence" without SQL*Plus aborting the script if mysequence does not exist?

DECLARE
  v_dummy NUMBER;
BEGIN
  -- try to find sequence in data dictionary
  SELECT 1
  INTO v_dummy
  FROM user_sequences
  WHERE sequence_name = 'MY_SEQUENCE_NAME';

  -- if sequence found, do nothing
EXCEPTION
  WHEN no_data_found THEN
    -- sequence not found, create it
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'create sequence my_sequence_name';
END;

If you're sure the script will always run under SQL*Plus, you can bracket the CREATE SEQUENCE statements with a directive to continue on error:

WHENEVER SQLERROR CONTINUE
-- create sequences here, ignoring errors
WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT SQL.SQLCODE

Be aware if there are other errors (permission problems, syntax failures, etc.) in the create sequence statements they will be ignored

I like:

DECLARE
  C NUMBER;
BEGIN
  SELECT COUNT(*) INTO C
  FROM ALL_TRIGGERS
  WHERE OWNER = 'YOUROWNER'
  AND TRIGGER_NAME = 'YOURTRIGGER';

  IF (C = 0) THEN
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
      CREATE TRIGGER "YOUROWNER"."YOURTRIGGER"
        blah blah blah your trigger blah blah
    ';
  END IF;
END;
/

You can check user_sequence table to see whether the sequence being created exists already or not.

Similar to davek's solution: The idea is, before creating any sequence, drop the sequence and create it, all in dynamic SQL, create a function, and say when you need to create 10 sequence, let the function take care...

function crt_seq(p_seq_name varchar2)
return boolean
begin
   for i in (select 1 from user_sequence where sequence_name = upper(p_seq_name))
   loop
   ---- Already exists. You can drop and recreate or return false to error out
   execute immediate 'drop sequence '||p_seq_name;
   execute immediate 'create sequence '||p_seq_name||' start with 1 increment
                    by 1 nocache';
   end loop;
   return true;
exception
when others then
   return false;
end;

You can parametrize all other options and have a elaborate function to create sequence for you.

DECLARE
  lsSeqName VARCHAR2(32 CHAR) := UPPER('MY_SEQUENCE_NAME');
  lnSeqCount NUMBER;
BEGIN
  -- try to find sequence in data dictionary
  SELECT count(1)
    INTO lnSeqCount
    FROM user_sequences
    WHERE UPPER(sequence_name) = lsSeqName;
  -- if sequence not found, create it
  IF lnSeqCount = 0 THEN
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE SEQUENCE ' || lsSeqName || ' START WITH 1 MINVALUE 1 MAXVALUE 1000000000000000 INCREMENT BY 1 NOCYCLE CACHE 20 NOORDER';
  END IF;
END;
/

OR

-- helper method
PROCEDURE createSeqIfNotExists (
  isSeqName VARCHAR2
) IS
  lnSeqCount NUMBER;
BEGIN
  -- try to find sequence in data dictionary
  SELECT count(1)
    INTO lnSeqCount
    FROM user_sequences
    WHERE UPPER(sequence_name) = UPPER(isSeqName);
  -- if sequence not found, create it
  IF lnSeqCount = 0 THEN
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE SEQUENCE ' || UPPER(isSeqName) || ' START WITH 1 MINVALUE 1 MAXVALUE 1000000000000000 INCREMENT BY 1 NOCYCLE CACHE 20 NOORDER';
  END IF;
END createSeqIfNotExists;

-- call method
BEGIN
  createSeqIfNotExists('MY_SEQUENCE_NAME');
END;
/