Check for MS Access database table if not exist create it

Question

How do you programmatically check for MS Access database table, if not exist then create it?

Answer 1

You could iterate though the table names to check for a specific table. See the below code to get the table names.

        string connectionstring = "Your connection string";
        string[] restrictionValues = new string[4]{null,null,null,"TABLE"};
        OleDbConnection oleDbCon = new OleDbConnection(connectionString);
        List tableNames = new List();

        try
        {
            oleDbCon.Open();
            DataTable schemaInformation = oleDbCon.GetSchema("Tables", restrictionValues);

            foreach (DataRow row in schemaInformation.Rows)
            {
               tableNames.Add(row.ItemArray[2].ToString());
            }
        }
        finally
        {
            oleDbCon.Close();
        }