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MySQL - Create view if not exist

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In this article, we would like to show you how to create a view if it doesn't already exist in MySQL.

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Practical example

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To show how the CREATE VIEW IF NOT EXIST statement works, we will use the following table:

MySQL - example data used with CREATE VIEW IF NOT EXISTS statement
MySQL - example data used with CREATE VIEW IF NOT EXISTS statement

Note:

At the end of this article you can find database preparation SQL queries.

Example

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In this example, we will create a view that shows all users from Spain if it doesn't already exist.

Query:

To see the view created with the query above simply use:

Result:

MySQL - View created by CREATE VIEW (HeidiSQL) 
MySQL - View created by CREATE VIEW (HeidiSQL)

Database preparation

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create_tables.sql file:

insert_data.sql file:

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