Testing for existence of a table - MySQL

Question

I'm using MySQL and I just want to see if a table exists so
that I can either select data from it or if it does not exists, I
want to pull the same fields from a table that I already know
exists.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

quote:
Originally posted by:
BKBK
using MySQL
<cfquery name="tableExists" datasource="DSN">
SELECT count(*) as testValue
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema = 'the_database_name'
AND table_name = 'your_table_name'
</cfquery>
<cfif tableExists.testValue[1] GT 0><!--- your table
exists --->
<cfquery name="q" datasource="DSN">
SELECT *
FROM your_table_name
</cfquery>
<cfelse><!--- your table doesn't exist --->
<cfquery name="q" datasource="DSN">
SELECT *
FROM other_table_name
</cfquery>
</cfif>
<cfdump var="#q#">
Thanks BKBK!. That works perfectly. I don't administer the
ColdFusion Server, so I'm hoping the administrators are handling
any security issues.