How to List Field's Name in table in Access Using SQL

Question

Can you please let me know if it is possible to list all fields name in a MS Access table?

Answer 1

I work in ms access far too much.

The only way I know of to do this, would be using vba, and defining for example a recordset, and looping through the fields.

Eg:

Sub ListFields()

dim rst as new adodb.recordset
rst.open "SELECT * FROM SomeTable", CurrentProject.Connection, adOpenForwardOnly, adLockReadOnly
' Note: adOpenForwardOnly and adLockReadOnly are the default values '
' for the CursorType and LockType arguments, so they are optional here '
' and are shown only for completeness '

dim ii as integer
dim ss as string
for ii = 0 to rst.fields.count - 1
    ss = ss & "," & rst.fields(ii).name
next ii

Debug.Print ss

End Sub

The string variable ss will contain a comma-delimited list of all the column names in the table named "SomeTable".

With a little reformatting of the logic you should be able to insert this data into another table if you wanted to, then query it out.

Does this help?