Question

I’m creating a table in VBA within a loop and when I run the code a table is created.
But the next time I run it, an error comes up telling me that the table exists and the remainder of the code is not executed.
How can I have it overwrite the existing table (from the previous run)?

Here is my code:

Option Compare Database

Public Function createTables()

    Dim db As DAO.Database
    Dim tdf As DAO.TableDef
    Dim rst As DAO.Recordset
    Dim fld As DAO.Field
    Dim strSQL As String

    strSQL = "Select SKUS from SKUS"
    Set db = CurrentDb()
    Set rst = db.OpenRecordset(strSQL)
    Set fld = rst.Fields("SKUS")

    'MsgBox fld.Value

    rst.MoveFirst
    Do While Not rst.EOF
        Set tdf = db.CreateTableDef(fld.Value)

        Set fld = tdf.CreateField("SKUS", dbText, 30)
        tdf.Fields.Append fld

        Set fld = tdf.CreateField("Count", dbInteger)
        tdf.Fields.Append fld

        db.TableDefs.Append tdf

        rst.MoveNext
    Loop

End Function

Can anyone help me out please?
Thanks!

Answer 1

I would simply delete the table before attempting to recreate it:

db.TableDefs.Delete fld.Value