如何判断数据库中是否存在一个数据表

方法是通过查询数据库meta数据来获取数据表。

public static Boolean doesTableExist(String tablename) { Connection con = null; HashSet<String> set = new HashSet<String>(); try { Class.forName(DatabaseConnection.getDatabaseConnection()); con = DriverManager.getConnection(DatabaseName.con); DatabaseMetaData meta = con.getMetaData(); ResultSet res = meta.getTables(null, null, null, new String[]{"TABLE"}); while (res.next()) { set.add(res.getString("TABLE_NAME")); } res.close(); con.close(); } catch (Exception e) { System.err.println("Exception: " + e.getMessage()); } //System.out.println(set); return set.contains(tablename.toUpperCase()); }

其中只需要替换DatabaseConnection.getDatabaseConnection() 和DatabaseName.con 为你需要连接的数据库就好了。可以参考另一篇文章如何连接埠通的数据库：http://blog.csdn.net/autofei/archive/2010/05/24/5621274.aspx

另外一个方法就是尝试连接数据库，然后捕获异常。

//connection = new DatabaseConnection(DatabaseConnection.DERBY, "", "db", "uncc", "uncc"); connection = new DatabaseConnection(DatabaseConnection.POSTGRES, "localhost", "postgres", "postgres", "postgres"); database = new Database(connection); // Checks to see if database structure already exists boolean exists = true; Statement stmt = connection.getStatement(); try { stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM qgram"); } catch (Exception e) { connection.rollback(); exists = false; } 

参考：http://www.herongyang.com/jdbc/JDBC-ODBC-Flat-File-List-Tables.html