Ann,

> I missed your reaction to Jim's question -
> do you really want a delete that doesn't fail,
> or a way to define a table without worrying
> about whether it already exists?

Mostly I want the ability to do a DROP and be able to tell it to ignore
raising an exception if the object has already been dropped or never created
in the first place. I don't care what the syntax is. I leave that to the
rest of you.

Jim's comments were to scattered for me to get a clear picture what he was
talking about and how it related to my remarks. In one sense he seemed to
agree that a more flexible dialect be used but he seemed to avoid agreeing
with me as much as possible.

FWIW,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com