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I was wondering if anyone knew how to reverse engineer an Access Database. I would like to be able to generate the SQL code that is used to create the database tables and to insert all the records in the table. In other words, I would like to create whats is similar to a MySQL dump file.
Any ideas would be great
thanks
jason
There’s nothing built into Access that will generate the DDL for your tables.
There are many third party tools however (ERWin, ERStudio, Visio, etc) that can generate the DDL for you.
I don’t know anything that will generate the Insert scripts for you. Access does however have plenty of export/import options if you just want to create a copy of your data and then use that as an import source.
It should be pointed out that there’s nothing stopping you from writing some VBA code to loop through the TableDefs and creating the DDL and insert scripts yourself.