creating table from vb

Hi,
I'm a student.I'm using vb 6 and access 2000.I'm creating a table in access by executing a query in vb.How can I know that is there any table with the same name already exists?If it exists how I can overwrite it
Pls any body help
Thnx in advance
Nebu

select * from MsysObjects where name = 'table1'


Or:


on error resume next
myconnection.execute "drop table table1"
on error goto 0
myconnection.execute "create table table1 (field1 int)"