How to automate creation of MS Access databases/tables/records

Can someone point me to some examples that automate the creation of MSAccess database files and tables?
Can I do this with a bat file? If not, a ps1 file?
I bing searched and could not find an example.
I want to test the existence of a mdb (or accdb) file and if it does not exist, create it.
Then I want to see if that mdb (or accdb) file contains a table named "parts".
If it does not contain that table named "parts", create the table.
If that table does not contain any records, than add some sample data, presumably with some SQL "INSERT" statements.
What is the preferred API for this? I was thinking we should use the ADO.NET/OleDB API. I did find a few examples of queries of MSAccess databases with the old ADO API.
ADOX seems very old for creating databases. Is there any thing more modern?
Is powershell the easiest scripting language to do this?
Thanks
Siegfried
siegfried heintze

This blog post should have most (if not all) of what you need:
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                              EXPORTING
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                              IMPORTING
                                  OUTPUT        = r_kunnr-high.
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               AND v_kun_high IS INITIAL.
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                                IMPORTING
                                   OUTPUT        = r_kunnr-low.
                r_kunnr-SIGN = 'I'.
                r_kunnr-OPTION = 'EQ'.
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              AND v_kun_low IS INITIAL
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                 r_budat-high = v_bud_high.
                 r_budat-option = 'EQ'.
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--> p1        text
<-- p2        text
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--> p1        text
<-- p2        text
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