Just adding here, for the benefit of developers and fellow DBAs
a script that receives @Tablename as a parameter
(which may or may not contain the schemaname) and returns the info below if the schema.table exists:
the_name object_id the_schema the_table the_type
[Facts].[FactBackOrder] 758293761 Facts FactBackOrder Table
I produced this script to be used inside other scripts every time I need to test whether or not a table or view exists, and when it does, get its object_id to be used for other purposes.
It raises an error when either you passed an empty string, wrong schema name or wrong table name.
this could be inside a procedure and return -1 for example.
As an example, I have a table called "Facts.FactBackOrder" in one of my Data Warehouse databases.
This is how I achieved this:
PRINT 'THE SERVER IS ' + @@SERVERNAME
--select db_name()
PRINT 'THE DATABASE IS ' + db_NAME()
PRINT ''
GO
SET NOCOUNT ON
GO
--===================================================================================
-- @TableName is the parameter
-- the object we want to deal with (it might be an indexed view or a table)
-- the schema might or might not be specified
-- when not specified it is DBO
--===================================================================================
DECLARE @TableName SYSNAME
SELECT @TableName = 'Facts.FactBackOrder'
--===================================================================================
--===================================================================================
DECLARE @Schema SYSNAME
DECLARE @I INT
DECLARE @Z INT
SELECT @TableName = LTRIM(RTRIM(@TableName))
SELECT @Z = LEN(@TableName)
IF (@Z = 0) BEGIN
RAISERROR('Invalid @Tablename passed.',16,1)
END
SELECT @I = CHARINDEX('.',@TableName )
--SELECT @TableName ,@I
IF @I > 0 BEGIN
--===================================================================================
-- a schema and table name have been passed
-- example Facts.FactBackOrder
-- @Schema = Fact
-- @TableName = FactBackOrder
--===================================================================================
SELECT @Schema = SUBSTRING(@TABLENAME,1,@I-1)
SELECT @TableName = SUBSTRING(@TABLENAME,@I+1,@Z-@I)
END
ELSE BEGIN
--===================================================================================
-- just a table name have been passed
-- so the schema will be dbo
-- example Orders
-- @Schema = dbo
-- @TableName = Orders
--===================================================================================
SELECT @Schema = 'DBO'
END
--===================================================================================
-- Check whether the @SchemaName is valid in the current database
--===================================================================================
IF NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA K WHERE K.[SCHEMA_NAME] = @Schema ) BEGIN
RAISERROR('Invalid Schema Name.',16,1)
END
--SELECT @Schema as [@Schema]
-- ,@TableName as [@TableName]
DECLARE @R1 TABLE (
THE_NAME SYSNAME
,THE_SCHEMA SYSNAME
,THE_TABLE SYSNAME
,OBJECT_ID INT
,THE_TYPE SYSNAME
,PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (THE_SCHEMA,THE_NAME)
)
;WITH RADHE_01 AS (
SELECT QUOTENAME(SCHEMA_NAME(O.schema_id)) + '.' + QUOTENAME(O.NAME) AS [the_name]
,the_schema=SCHEMA_NAME(O.schema_id)
,the_table=O.NAME
,object_id =o.object_id
,[the_type]= CASE WHEN O.TYPE = 'U' THEN 'Table' ELSE 'View' END
from sys.objects O
where O.is_ms_shipped = 0
AND O.TYPE IN ('U','V')
)
INSERT INTO @R1 (
THE_NAME
,THE_SCHEMA
,THE_TABLE
,OBJECT_ID
,THE_TYPE
)
SELECT the_name
,the_schema
,the_table
,object_id
,the_type
FROM RADHE_01
WHERE the_schema = @Schema
AND the_table = @TableName
IF (@@ROWCOUNT = 0) BEGIN
RAISERROR('Invalid Table Name.',16,1)
END
ELSE BEGIN
SELECT THE_NAME
,THE_SCHEMA
,THE_TABLE
,OBJECT_ID
,THE_TYPE
FROM @R1
END
