title: IF EXISTS not recognized in Derby
body: <pre><code>DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Pose ;
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  <p>results in the error</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error code -1, SQL state 42X01: Syntax error: Encountered "EXISTS" at line 1, column 15. 
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  <p>I'm running this from inside NetBeans 7.3 using the default Derby sample db. </p>