参见(7)如何在SQLite FAQ中列出SQLite数据库中包含的所有表/索引:

SELECT name FROM sqlite_master
WHERE type='table'
ORDER BY name;

R DBI包中的函数dbExistsTable()为R程序员简化了这个问题。请看下面的例子:

library(DBI)
con <- dbConnect(RSQLite::SQLite(), ":memory:")
# let us check if table iris exists in the database
dbExistsTable(con, "iris")
### returns FALSE

# now let us create the table iris below,
dbCreateTable(con, "iris", iris)
# Again let us check if the table iris exists in the database,
dbExistsTable(con, "iris")
### returns TRUE 

SQLite表名不区分大小写，但是默认情况下比较是区分大小写的。为了在所有情况下都能正常工作，需要添加COLLATE NOCASE。

SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name='table_name' COLLATE NOCASE

参见(7)如何在SQLite FAQ中列出SQLite数据库中包含的所有表/索引:

SELECT name FROM sqlite_master
WHERE type='table'
ORDER BY name;

如果你得到一个"table already exists"错误，在SQL字符串中做如下修改:

CREATE table IF NOT EXISTS table_name (para1,para2);

这样可以避免异常。

这是我的SQLite Cordova代码:

get_columnNames('LastUpdate', function (data) {
    if (data.length > 0) { // In data you also have columnNames
        console.log("Table full");
    }
    else {
        console.log("Table empty");
    }
});

另一个是:

function get_columnNames(tableName, callback) {
    myDb.transaction(function (transaction) {
        var query_exec = "SELECT name, sql FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name ='" + tableName + "'";
        transaction.executeSql(query_exec, [], function (tx, results) {
            var columnNames = [];
            var len = results.rows.length;
            if (len>0){
                var columnParts = results.rows.item(0).sql.replace(/^[^\(]+\(([^\)]+)\)/g, '$1').split(','); ///// RegEx
                for (i in columnParts) {
                    if (typeof columnParts[i] === 'string')
                        columnNames.push(columnParts[i].split(" ")[0]);
                };
                callback(columnNames);
            }
            else callback(columnNames);
        });
    });
}