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Get Column Names From Access Database Table with VBA

August 11, 2017 by Ryan McCormick Leave a Comment

It has been a long time since I have added a VBA post, so here is something that I had to quickly put together for a little project that I am working on this evening.

I have a really large table with a bunch of fieldnames that I need to query through to make some sample data for another project.

I thought that it would be easiest to quickly grab all of the field names from my target table so I can filter out only the ones I need and not manually type a bunch of field names.

I am sure there are other trivial ways of doing this, but since you found my post, you are probably looking to do what I am doing here.

Get Column Names from Access Recordset with VBA

Sub getFieldNamesFromTable(targetTable As String)
    Dim db As DAO.Database
    Dim rs As DAO.Recordset
    Dim strSQL As String
    
    Set db = CurrentDb
    
    strSQL = "SELECT TOP 1 * FROM " & targetTable
    
    Set rs = db.OpenRecordset(strSQL)
    
    For Each fName In rs.Fields
        Debug.Print fName.Name
    Next fName
    
    'Do While Not rs.EOF
    
    'Loop
    
    db.Close
    Set db = Nothing
    Set rs = Nothing
End Sub

And then to use this method, set up another sub in a module or wherever

Sub tableNamesRunner() 
	getFieldNamesFromTable ("MyAccessDBTableName")
End Sub

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