Question

I have an Access database that is corrupted beyond all repair (don’t ask me how, it’s a client database). However, we can, using code like .NET ODBC, access the data. Since we have a clean copy of the database, we are planning to transfert all data from the corrupted to the new one.

We only have one problem, it’s that the database contains autonums and lots of links. When we transfer the data, we want to make sure all autonum ids are exactly the same as they were before. Othewise, we’ll just end up with more problems.

Is there a way to do this ?

Thanks

Answer 1

I believe ACCESS Select into’s will keep the autoincrement unchanged. After that, you can continue working in your clean db.