Question

How do you programmatically check for MS Access database table, if not exist then create it?

Answer 1

Simply execute following code if table will exist it will return error other wise it will create a new one:

try
{
        OleDbConnection myConnection = new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=" + frmMain.strFilePath + "\\ConfigStructure.mdb");
        myConnection.Open();
        OleDbCommand myCommand = new OleDbCommand();
        myCommand.Connection = myConnection;
        myCommand.CommandText = "CREATE TABLE <yourtable name>(<columns>)";
        myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();
        myCommand.Connection.Close();
}
catch(OleDbException e)
{  
    if(e.ErrorCode == 3010 || e.ErrorCode == 3012)
    // if error then table exist do processing as required
}

Those error codes are returned if a table already exists – check here for all.