RENAME TABLE

[Guest]

Why doesn't Access support the SQL statement, "RENAME TABLE name1 TO name2"???

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[Douglas J. Steele]

Is it really that necessary, given how seldom you need to rename tables?

 

[Smartin]

Why doesn't Access support the SQL statement, "RENAME TABLE name1 TO name2"???

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FYI You can change a table name in code e.g.,

dbengine(0)(0).TableDefs("OldTableName").Name = "NewTableName"

 

[Jamie Collins]

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.

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