How to check if the table exists in teh database

Question

Hi,
I am using MS Acess and how do i check using the query if the table already exist in the db?
What is the exact query. Can any one help me.
Thanks
Deepti

Answer 1

This will do it for you and print out the results using JDOM. - %
package database;
import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.Element;
import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DatabaseMetaData;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.ResultSetMetaData;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class TableLister
   public static final String DRIVER = "sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver";
   public static final String DATABASE = "jdbc:odbc:DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=C:\\Documents and Settings\\Michael\\My Documents\\Projects\\Java\\Forum\\data\\DataConnection.mdb";
   public static final String USERNAME = "admin";
   public static final String PASSWORD = "";
   public static void main(String[] args)
      Connection conn = null;
      ResultSet tables = null;
      String driver = "";
      try
         driver = ((args.length > 0) ? args[0] : DRIVER);
         String url = ((args.length > 1) ? args[1] : DATABASE);
         String username = ((args.length > 2) ? args[2] : USERNAME);
         String password = ((args.length > 3) ? args[3] : PASSWORD);
         Class.forName(driver);
         conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
         DatabaseMetaData meta = conn.getMetaData();
         // Bring back ALL tables and views, including SYSTEM tables.
         tables = meta.getTables(null, null, null, null);
         ResultSetMetaData rsmd = tables.getMetaData();
         int numColumns = rsmd.getColumnCount();
         List columnNames = new ArrayList();
         for (int j = 0; j < numColumns; ++j)
            columnNames.add(rsmd.getColumnName(j + 1));
         Element root = new Element("tables");
         int tableCount = 0;
         while (tables.next())
            Element table = new Element("table");
            table.setAttribute("id", Integer.toString(++tableCount));
            for (int j = 0; j < numColumns; ++j)
               Element column = new Element((String) columnNames.get(j));
               column.setText(tables.getString((String) columnNames.get(j)));
               table.addContent(column);
            root.addContent(table);
         conn.close();
         Document doc = new Document(root);
         XMLOutputter outputter = new XMLOutputter("   ", true);
         System.out.println(outputter.outputString(doc));
      catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
         System.err.println("Couldn't load JDBC driver class " + driver);
         e.printStackTrace();
      catch (SQLException e)
         System.err.println("SQL state: " + e.getSQLState());
         System.err.println("SQL error: " + e.getErrorCode());
         e.printStackTrace();
      catch (Exception e)
         e.printStackTrace();
      finally
         close(tables);
         close(conn);
   public static void close(Connection c)
      try
         if (c != null)
            c.close();
      catch (SQLException e)
         e.printStackTrace();
   public static void close(Statement stmt)
      try
         if (stmt != null)
            stmt.close();
      catch (SQLException e)
         e.printStackTrace();
   public static void close(ResultSet result)
      try
         if (result != null)
            result.close();
      catch (SQLException e)
         e.printStackTrace();
}