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Basically, you're talking about replication. I don't believe Access can
do that w/ Paradox files. The alternative is to run a query that checks
each individual row/column (record/field) value and show rows that are
different. You'd have to use a unique identifier (Primary Key) to
identify each row to be compared.
I'd create a VBA routine (using the TransferDatabase method of the DoCmd
object - see the VBA Help file on TransferDatabase method for examples)
that attaches each Paradox data file to the Access front-end, one at a
time, and run the comparison query.
The query would look something like this, if there were 4 columns
(primary_key, col1, col2, col3) in the comparison tables:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS RowAnomolies
FROM MasterTable As A INNER JOIN AttachedTable As B
ON A.primary_key = B.primary_key
WHERE A.col1 <> B.col1
OR A.col2 <> B.col2
OR A.col3 <> B.col3
You'd change the names of the tables and the columns to whatever your
tables and column names were. You'd change the names and number of
columns in the WHERE clause (IOW, be sure to compare all columns). The
primary key can be more than one column so be sure to include all of the
PK's columns in the JOIN's ON clause.
If the query returned a value > 0 then you'd know that the AttachedTable
didn't match the MasterTable.
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