dbExistsTable: Does Athena table exist?

In RAthena: Connect to 'AWS Athena' using 'Boto3' ('DBI' Interface)

Does Athena table exist?

Description

Returns logical scalar if the table exists or not. TRUE if the table exists, FALSE otherwise.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'AthenaConnection,character'
dbExistsTable(conn, name, ...)

Arguments

conn	A DBIConnection object, as returned by dbConnect().
name	The table name, passed on to dbQuoteIdentifier(). Options are: a character string with the unquoted DBMS table name, e.g. "table_name", a call to Id() with components to the fully qualified table name, e.g. Id(schema = "my_schema", table = "table_name") a call to SQL() with the quoted and fully qualified table name given verbatim, e.g. SQL('"my_schema"."table_name"')
...	Other parameters passed on to methods.

Value

dbExistsTable() returns logical scalar. TRUE if the table exists, FALSE otherwise.

See Also

dbExistsTable

Examples

## Not run: 
# Note:
# - Require AWS Account to run below example.
# - Different connection methods can be used please see `RAthena::dbConnect` documnentation

library(DBI)

# Demo connection to Athena using profile name
con <- dbConnect(RAthena::athena())

# Write data.frame to Athena table
dbWriteTable(con, "mtcars", mtcars,
  partition = c("TIMESTAMP" = format(Sys.Date(), "%Y%m%d")),
  s3.location = "s3://mybucket/data/"
)

# Check if table exists from Athena
dbExistsTable(con, "mtcars")

# Disconnect conenction
dbDisconnect(con)

## End(Not run)

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