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

To check if a table exists you can extend DbConnection like this:

public static class DbConnectionExtensions
{
    public static bool TableExists(this DbConnection conn, string table)
    {
        conn.open();
        var exists = conn.GetSchema("Tables", new string[4] { null, null, table, "TABLE" }).Rows.Count > 0;
        conn.close();
        return exists;
    }
}

Then you can call TableExists in any derived class like OleDbConnection, SQLiteConnection or SqlConnection.