Ok so I need to declare the table first. Here is how the program works. There is the main scoring software that the judges enter the individual scores for. The company that made the software has a script that output the results via xml. You can change the time from 1sec to 300sec for the updates but it either rewrites the entire xml and replaces the old one with the same name or it opens the xml and makes the changes. Since I do not know how it is done I will need to read the same file multiple times. Should I put in a condition before I create the table to verify there is a table and it has data in it, or should I use this one script to create the first tables and then execute another one that leave the table creating out?

Thank you for your input
Tim