Re: Get a list of column field names from a MS Access table

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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Ashley Sheridan
<ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 16:58 -0500, Bastien Koert wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:01 PM, revDAVE <Cool@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Newbie question:
>> >
>> > I would like to get a list of column field names from a MS Access table and
>> > hopefully get them returned in the ORIGINAL order (as they appear in
>> > access)
>> >
>> > Is there a sql query I could do to get this result?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > Thanks - RevDave
>> > Cool @ hosting4days . com
>> > [db-lists 09]
>> >
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>> A dirty way is to query the table where 1=2 to return no results
>>
>> select * from table where 1=2
>>
> That'll just return an empty result set, as in empty and with no fields
> output! In MySQL you can do this:
>
> SELECT column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name =
> 'table_name'
>
> this might help with doing the same for M$Access?
>
>
> Ash
> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>

I haven't ever seen information_schema in M$ Access.

Andrew

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