existsTable

Syntax

existsTable(dbUrl, tableName)

Arguments

dbUrl is a string indicating the path of a database.

tableName is a string indicating a table name.

Details

Check if the specified table exists in the specified database.

Examples

To check if a table exists in a DFS database (on a data node or compute node). The following scripts must be executed on a data node or compute node.

n=1000000
ID=rand(10, n)
dates=2017.08.07..2017.08.11
date=rand(dates, n)
x=rand(10.0, n)
t=table(ID, date, x)

db = database("dfs://valueDB", VALUE, 2017.08.07..2017.08.11)
pt = db.createPartitionedTable(t, `pt, `date);
pt.append!(t);

existsTable("dfs://valueDB", `pt);
// output
true

existsTable("dfs://valueDB/20170807", `pt);
// output
true