improting table descrition from SQL to access tables

  • I have code written from before when my tables were stored in access and I used the table descritpion property to populate a combo box but since I changed to a SQL backend I am not getting the table descritpions to be passed in to access when the tables are linked is there a way to do this.

  • To my knowledge the table description is resident in Access ONLY.  You can add columnar descriptions in SQL but not table (that I know).

    I would assume you will need to create another table that has tablename and description and use this to populate your drop-down...



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  • In the SQL table properties their is a property of the fields in the table that has the description.  I just need to get this information back to my access frontend.

  • You are correct there is a system table that stores descriptions of FIELDS but not a TABLE descriptor.  These are extended table properties and you can look them up in BOL



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