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copied!<p>If you're happy to use something other than pure Access SQL, you could persist a collection of ADOX objects and use those to recreate the table structure.</p> <p>Example (in Python, doesn't currently recreate relationships and indexes as it wasn't needed for the project I was working on):</p> <pre class="lang-python prettyprint-override"><code>import os import sys import datetime import comtypes.client as client class Db: def __init__(self, original_con_string = None, file_path = None, new_con_string = None, localise_links = False): self.original_con_string = original_con_string self.file_path = file_path self.new_con_string = new_con_string self.localise_links = localise_links def output_table_structures(self, verbosity = 0): if os.path.exists(self.file_path): if not os.path.isdir(self.file_path): raise Exception("file_path must be a directory!") else: os.mkdir(self.file_path) cat = client.CreateObject("ADOX.Catalog") cat.ActiveConnection = self.original_con_string linked_tables = () for table in cat.Tables: if table.Type == u"TABLE": f = open(self.file_path + os.path.sep + "Tablestruct_" + table.Name + ".txt", "w") conn = client.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") conn.ConnectionString = self.original_con_string rs = client.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") conn.Open() rs.Open("SELECT TOP 1 * FROM [%s];" % table.Name, conn) for field in rs.Fields: col = table.Columns[field.Name] col_details = (col.Name, col.Type, col.DefinedSize, col.Attributes) property_dict = {} property_dict["Autoincrement"] = ( col.Properties["Autoincrement"].Value) col_details += property_dict, f.write(repr(col_details) + "\n") rs.Close() conn.Close() f.close() if table.Type == u"LINK": table_details = table.Name, table_details += table.Properties( "Jet OLEDB:Link DataSource").Value, table_details += table.Properties( "Jet OLEDB:Link Provider String").Value, table_details += table.Properties( "Jet OLEDB:Remote Table Name").Value, linked_tables += table_details, if linked_tables != (): f = open(self.file_path + os.path.sep + "linked_list.txt", "w") for t in linked_tables: f.write(repr(t) + "\n") cat.ActiveConnection.Close() </code></pre> <p>A similar reverse function reconstructs the database using the second connection string.</p>

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