RENAME TABLE Dave 25.09.2006 20:41:02 Why doesn't Access support the SQL statement, "RENAME TABLE name1 TO name2"??? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=7fc70d43-eae0-45be-8191-2aa6c9fb226b&dg=microsoft.public.access

Re: RENAME TABLE "Douglas J. Steele" <NOSPAM_djsteele[ at ]NOSPAM_canada.com> 25.09.2006 21:01:39 Is it really that necessary, given how seldom you need to rename tables? -- Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP http://I.Am/DougSteele (no private e-mails, please) "Dave" <Dave[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7FC70D43-EAE0-45BE-8191-2AA6C9FB226B[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Why doesn't Access support the SQL statement, "RENAME TABLE name1 TO > name2"??? > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow > this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=7fc70d43-eae0-45be-8191-2aa6c9fb226b&dg=microsoft.public.access

Re: RENAME TABLE Smartin <smartin108[ at ]yahoo.com> 26.09.2006 00:26:39 Dave wrote: [Quoted Text] > Why doesn't Access support the SQL statement, "RENAME TABLE name1 TO name2"??? > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=7fc70d43-eae0-45be-8191-2aa6c9fb226b&dg=microsoft.public.access FYI You can change a table name in code e.g., dbengine(0)(0).TableDefs("OldTableName").Name = "NewTableName" -- Smartin

Re: RENAME TABLE "Jamie Collins" <jamiecollins[ at ]xsmail.com> 26.09.2006 13:40:19 Dave wrote: [Quoted Text] > Why doesn't Access support the SQL statement, "RENAME TABLE name1 TO name2"??? Because it's not ANSI-92 syntax e.g. test it at: http://developer.mimer.se/validator/parser92/ Jamie. --