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

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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:41:12AM +0000, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 16:58 -0500, Bastien Koert wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> This is the SQL standard way of doing this. Both MySQL and PostgreSQL
> support it. Don't know about MSSQL.
>
> Paul
> --
> Paul M. Foster
>

Access is not MSSQL, and I'd hardly consider it standard SQL either.
:-) To even connect to it from PHP, I think you'd need to either use a
generic ODBC library or else the COM or DOTNET libraries to use
something like Microsoft's ADO library or similar.

Andrew

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