Question

I am trying to convert some excel (.xlsx) and Access (.accdb) to CSV files.

I quickly found a way to do this with Excel but now I cannot find any helpful documentation on converting .accdb files.

So far I have:

        $adOpenStatic = 3
        $adLockOptimistic = 3

        $objConnection = New-Object -com "ADODB.Connection"
        $objRecordSet = New-Object -com "ADODB.Recordset"


        $objConnection.Open("Provider = Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0; Data Source = " + $Filepath)
        $objRecordset.Open("Select * From TableName",$objConnection,$adOpenStatic, $adLockOptimistic)

#Here I need some way to either saveas .csv or loop through
#each row and pass to csv.

        $objRecordSet.Close()
        $objConnection.Close()

Any Ideas?

I would be willing to do this with another language (VB, Java, PHP) if anyone knows a way.

Answer 1

If you want to stick with ADODB COM object:

# loop through all records - do work on each record to convert it to CSV
$objRecordset.Open("Select * FROM Tablename", $objConnection,$adOpenStatic,$adLockOptimistic)

$objRecordset.MoveFirst()

do {
# do your work to get each field and convert this item to CSV
# fields available thru: $objRecordset.Fields['fieldname'].Value
$objRecordset.MoveNext()

} while ($objRecordset.EOF -eq $false)

$objRecordset.Close()