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einhugur
July 28th, 1999, 05:39 AM
Hello

I need to add a field to a Access database from a VisualBasic code

(and delete one field)

Can anyone advice on this ??

Thanks

Lothar Haensler
July 28th, 1999, 05:50 AM
if you use DAO to access your jet database, check out the TableDefs collection.

sample


Dim db as DAO.Database
set db = OpenDatabase("m:\daten\projekt\test.mdb")
Dim td as DAO.TableDef
set td = db.TableDefs("test2")
td.fields.remove("PK") ' remove
' add new fields
Dim fld as DAO.Field
set fld = td.createField("pk", dbLong)
fld.attributes = dbAutoIncrField
td.fields.append