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

Give this a go...

    private void Button_OldDDLDump_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string _cnstr = "connectionstringhere";
        OleDbConnection _cn = new OleDbConnection(_cnstr);
        try
        {
            _cn.Open();
            System.Data.DataTable _dt = null;            
            try
            {
                _dt = _cn.GetSchema("tables");
                m_msghelper.AppendArray( DataTableHelper.DataTableToString(_dt) );                               
            }
            catch (Exception _ex)
            {
                System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(_ex.ToString());
            }
            finally
            {
                _dt.Dispose();
            }
        }
        catch (Exception _ex)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(_ex.ToString());
        }
        finally
        {
            _cn.Close();
        }
    }

Helper method to dump the database structure to a string array here..

public static class DataTableHelper
{
    public static string[] DataTableToString( System.Data.DataTable dt )
    {
        List _retval = new List();

        foreach (System.Data.DataRow row in dt.Rows)
        {
            foreach (System.Data.DataColumn col in dt.Columns)
            {
                _retval.Add( string.Format("{0} = {1}", col.ColumnName, row[col]) );
            }
            _retval.Add( "============================");
        }
        return _retval.ToArray();
    }
}