I am working with Microsoft visual studio 2005.Can anyone tell me how to get table names and column names of a MS access database?
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I am working with Microsoft visual studio 2005.Can anyone tell me how to get table names and column names of a MS access database?
Typically, you should the metadata facilities of your database driver to do that. All database call level APIs I have heard of supply methods/functions/procedures that can return database metadata, typically as a resultset.
You didn’t mention any language, so lets assume you’re using C#. In that case, you’d make a OleDB (OleDB is driver framework for .NET languages) connection object, and invoke the
GetOleDbSchemaTablemethod on it. This will then give you aDataTableobject that gives you access to the rows of data that convey this information.For an OleDB example, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288452(VS.71).aspx
For the GetOleDbSchemaTable method, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.oledb.oledbconnection.getoledbschematable(VS.71).aspx
For information on the types of metadata provided by OleDB, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.oledb.oledbschemaguid_members(VS.71).aspx