Check if database exist

• wanox

  Ten Centuries

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  January 9, 2015 at 12:57 pm

  #300177

  How can I check if a database exist before using it. I am running several scripts in one file that run against several databases and some database might exist depending on the server. If the database does not exist I get a '911, database does not exist' error. How can I handle this error?

• Lowell

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  January 9, 2015 at 1:13 pm

  #1769188

  dynamic sql to create the database? that won't fix any warnign where you have a USE [NewDB] that doesn't exist at parse time, i think:

  if NOT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM sys.databases WHERE name='NewDb')

  BEGIN

  EXEC ('CREATE DATABASE NewDB')

  END

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